U.S. Sanitary Commission Soldier’s Home Letter & Cover. – SOLD

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U.S. Sanitary Commission Soldier’s Home Letter & Cover.

Written by a soldier in the 97th Ohio Infantry, dated July 18, 1864, letter from Nashville, Tenn, and a nice cover, mentioning Rebel prisoners, and wounded Union soldiers visited in hospital.

John H. Robson, enlisted as a private in Co. “I” of the 97th Ohio Infantry on August 5, 1862, and mustered out on June 10, 1865 at Nashville.  Although the data base shows no evidence of a wound, Robson was wounded.  Robson writes to a friend at Coshocton, Ohio that he is “all right one the grove again…I am here with rebel prisoners and have been here three days.” He had been in Louisville before coming to Nashville.  “I have not had an opertunity for  before I left the Regt. we was fired so that we had neirry little time to write….I expect you all thought I was worse wounded than I really was, My wound is nearly healed ….”  Robson goes on to say that he had seen most of “our wounded boys here in hospitals and they are all dowing well.” he mentions a few other men from the regiment, “Poor All Taylor I can’t think that he is really dead but it is to true, I have again lost two of my mess-mates, And it seems providential that I escaped so well, from the place we was in. It has caused me to think a great deal…”

Three page letter in legible ink, with light yellow cover with Circle Date Stamp cancel for NASHVILLE  TENN, JUL 21, 1864, – “DUE 6 ” cents stamp, to Mr. William G. Hay, Coshocton, Ohio.

A nice informative, clean letter and cover.