Bandits, Deserters, and Slaves Running from the Masters with use of the “N” Word / SOLD

Bandits, Deserters, and Slaves Running from the Masters with use of the “N” Word - Inventory Number: DOC 380 / SOLD

Union Soldier's Letter. Four pages, bifolium, 4.75" x 7.75", New Bern, NC, January 15, 1863. Written to the soldier's parents while stationed at New Bern, when the city was under Union occupation. Though he writes of having comfortable quarters, the soldier laments being far from family, and "among a people but 1/2 civilized as it is." Later he writes of bandits roaming the land, "fetching plunder here...many valuable farms and homes have been Robbed. 

War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed, 4pp. octavo, New Bern, January 15, 1863, and reads in part: "...Desterters from the Rebel army often come in here. Niggers running from their masters camp in here every other day. One came in yesterday that had been hid in the swamp most a year. Night he told enough to live for their master cant touch them now when in our lines...the gun boat Perry captured 2 schooners this week and brought them in here, they fitted out at Norfolk with molasses, salt crockery, ware, cloth & other articles too numerous to mention..." Fine condition.

Inventory Number: DOC 380 / SOLD