Buy this book on-line O.W. KEYES : 1862 CIVIL WAR HANDWRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ARMY RECRUITER AND THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ADJUTANT GENERAL REGARDING DESERTERS
32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. CIVIL WAR and New Hampshire interest: - 1862 letter from recruiter to New Hampshire Adjutant-General, re: deserters, etc., 2pp, 8vo. With reply on 3rd page from Adjt.-General. Aug. 28, 1862, Holderness [NH]. Re: recruitment of volunteers..."I have enlisted as you see 56 men. Plymouth comes here with 29 men. New Hampton with 21 men making 106 men here." Electing officers....- detailed description of deserter -- "...has I suspect left here to avoid the service..." Wants the state to send a man and money to find him. "I feel I have spent time and money enough myself..." On 3rd page the Adjt.-General replies - :The presumption is, that your deserter will cost as much as he is worth to look him up -- in as much he has never been mustered into service..." VG. Book Condition: Good+. Binding: Manuscript Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of O.W. KEYES : 1862 CIVIL WAR HANDWRITTEN CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ARMY RECRUITER AND THE NEW HAMPSHIRE ADJUTANT GENERAL REGARDING DESERTERS. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, first editions, libri rari, livres d'occasion and livres rares. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |