Sep 28, 2017 - Sale 2455

Sale 2455 - Lot 96

Price Realized: $ 438
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(CIVIL WAR--PENNSYLVANIA.) French, Edson M. Letters from a private in the 141st Pennsylvania Infantry. 4 Autograph Letters Signed to aunt Mrs. Rosetta Bernice Hall Pease of Jackson, PA, one of them on patriotic letterhead; various sizes, condition generally strong; with original envelopes, 3 of them patriotic. Vp, September 1862 to March 1863
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Edson Martin French (1844-1906) was a farmer in Jackson, Susquehanna County, PA when he enlisted. His 17 January 1863 letter, written from camp near Fredericksburg, pleads "Would to God, that this war might come to an end." With a possibly unrelated 1864 Pennsylvania receipt, unidentified small photograph of a Union soldier (unmounted), and small printed prayer card.