Civil War Letter 1862 Confederate Spy Caught Wearing Rebel Uniform Gun Shot VTG
An original Civil War related letter dated November 13, 1862. Some of the writing is a little hard to read, I translated the best I could.
I Received your welcome letter last night.............. The 129 Regment is a coming to Iain our.... I would be very glad to see them I tell you Lusa thare is Soldiers in erry field.............. A Rifle discharge wile lying on the ground and shot one of our men rite throw the leg and the man is out of Company K and his name is John Ingler he is in our Regmen but thay got the Ball out again................. We wasent in no Battle yet I had Stated in my other letter that we expect to have a fight but I dont think we will have one fore this time and now I must come to a close we have so much to do............
And now I must let you know that we have Capterd an old Relble Spi yesterday he was drest in one of our uniform and then thay Strift that uniform of and then he had a Reble uniform under that one and I think thay will hang him and if thay only wood hang all that thay could get so that the wore would come to and end............ The letter has some wear and stain marks, there are stain marks and residue, I think around 4 words are hard to read or unreadable. If you have any questions feel free to ask.Please note I list new items every week. The item "Civil War Letter 1862 Confederate Spy Caught Wearing Rebel Uniform Gun Shot VTG" is in sale since Sunday, July 24, 2016. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Militaria\Civil War (1861-65)\Original Period Items\Correspondence, Mail". The seller is "mozartbach1971" and is located in Irvine, California.
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