CIVIL WAR 57TH PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL NURSE LETTER RE INSANE PRISONER For Sale

CIVIL WAR 57TH PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL NURSE LETTER RE INSANE PRISONER
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CIVIL WAR 57TH PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL NURSE LETTER RE INSANE PRISONER:
$125.00

The 57th Pennsylvania Infantry saw plenty of combat during the War incl significant combat losses at Gettysburg, and The Wilderness . Corporal Gilbert Mitchell enlisted January, 1864 and served to the War\'s End. An Original Civil War Letter from Corporal Mitchell at the Annapolis, Maryland Army Hospital , March 9 (1865) to his sister at Lemon, Pennsylvania , says he has not been receiving her letters and expects there is foul play at the Lemon PO. He writes that he is doing well and now works in the Diet Kitchen. He reports news is scarce and all wonder where Sherman is. Prisoners are coming in every day- \"one is crazy as a bedbug\" and has hung on to him every day to begging them \"not to hurt him\".
The 2pp 8 x 5\" letter comes with a postal cover addressed to his sister Amanda in Lemon , Wyoming County, Pa, with an Annapolis postmark. Minor age stains, edge wear, Overall VG. Comes with service info.

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