3 pages, 7 1/2 x 12, in ink, written by William A. Prickett, to Elias D. Smith. Comes with the original cover with Pensacola, Fla., Jun. 5, 1864, postmark, with 3 cents George Washington postage stamp. Addressed in ink to Elias D. Smith, Q.M. Sergt., 14th Regt. N.J.V., Washington, D.C., with docket, Received June 23, 1864, City Point, Va.

Camp of the 25th Regt. U.S. I.[infantry] C.[olored], Near Barrancas, Florida, June 5th, 1864

Friend Elias D,

I received your letter dated April 24th yesterday. It has taken a long time...  

3 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Bradley Keesler.

Little York, Pa., September 29, 1862

Dear Sir,

It is with great pleasure that I take this opportunity to let you know that I am in the hospital at Little York, and I am very sorry to tell you that I ain't any better yet. I think that I am getting worse every day. I am constantly spitting up blood. I must tell you that I have wrote several letters to you and I have never received an answer yet, and I hope that you will write me an answer to this and let me know how the...  

3 pages, 4 x 6 1/2, in ink.

Newton, [New Jersey], May 28/61


My dear Sister,

I intended to write to you last week but I had to write a composition and that prevented my doing so. I suppose you have seen the two companies from Newton. Mr. Ogden Ryerson is Captain of one and Mr. John Wildreck is first Lieutenant. Mr. Ross has not gone and if you come up this summer we will give you an introduction to him. They think my clothes look very nice. I have had my bloomers fixed over like those up and down ones. It...  

3 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by O.W. Palmer, to his sister. Comes with the original envelope addressed in ink to Mrs. S.J. Greinger, Susqa. County, Penna., with C.D.S., Nashville, Ten., Jan. 12/64, with 3 cents rose George Washington postage stamp with bullseye cancellation.

Field Hospital, Nashville, Jan. 10th/64

Dear Sister,

As I have not heard anything from you in so long a time think this afternoon I will write you a few lines hoping this will not find you all froze up. It has been pretty cold here for the past...  

4 pages, 5 x 8, in bold pencil, written by a Union soldier to his brother and sister.

Miner's Hill, Vir.[ginia], January 8, 1863

Dear Brother and Sister,

After neglecting about a fortnight or more answering your letter, and having one evening to myself, I thought perhaps I could not have a better time to write. Our company has been on fatigue duty all day about one mile from camp chopping wood for the Regiment. It would kinda surprise you to see the wood nineteen men has sent today and split. There was nineteen men in a...  

4 pages, 7 3/4 x 9 3/4, in ink, written by Julius M. Swain, to his wife. Comes with stamped cover addressed to Mrs. J.M. Swain, Roxbury, Mass.

Wilson's Wharf, Va., Sept. 18, 1864

My Dear Rosie,
This is the third time I have got my paper ready to answer your letter of Sept. 11 written in Philadelphia before leaving the De Molay. I felt sure that your trip would be a rough one and am thankful that you got away so pleasantly. I am now looking for a letter by each night's mail and am anxious to hear of your safe arrival and what...  

Written by a soldier wounded at Petersburg, Va.!

2 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written on imprinted U.S. Sanitary Commission letter sheet by Jacob Ames. Comes with imprinted Sanitary Commission cover addressed in ink to Cap. Walter Wyman, Woburn, Mass., with C.D.S. Washington, D.C. Aug. 16/64, with 3 cents rose George Washington postage stamp with bullseye cancellation.

Near Petersburg, Aug. 14/64

Mr. Wyman, Dear Sir,
I received your daughter's letter dated Aug. 6 yesterday and will try to answer it. I went and saw...  

4 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Charles Miller. Comes with cover addressed to Mrs. Mary B. Miller, New York, N.Y., with 3 cents rose George Washington postage stamp and C.D.S., Harper's Ferry, Va., June 13, 1863.

Camp Barry, [Va.], June 13th, [1863]

Dear Mrs. Boo Hen,
Although I have received several letters this week, I have not yet heard anything concerning the most important one I ever sent you, that of Sunday last containing $12 which I had saved out of my half month's pay after settling everything, with everybody &...  

3 pages, 5 x 8, in ink.

Norfolk, Va., Dec. 17th/62

Dear Mother,

I received the letter & paper and found a plug of tobacco in each one. I am always glad to receive letters from home & especially when there is tobacco in them. My health still remains good, and regards us not getting enough to eat is false. I have always got enough. If it doesn't come by fair means you know I will have it any how. There must be some fellow from Bainbridge in the army that gets more to eat here than at home. Mother, I wish you would send us...  

7 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, on pair of patriotic letter sheets, with embossed American flag and the motto, Union Forever, written by William Byrns, to his future wife. Comes with stamped cover addressed to Miss Florence Clark. Unusual in the fact that three one cent Benjamin Franklin postage stamps were used.

Camp Michigan, Annapolis Junction, Md., Dec. 27/61

Dear Florence,
Yours of the 24th just recd. I am greatly ? because you did not send your picture as agreed. Don't think its right. I was mortified when I sent that photo &...  

3 pages, 7 3/4 x 10, in ink, written by William Byrns, to his future wife. Comes with stamped cover addressed to Miss Florence Clark.

Camp Michigan, Annapolis Junction, Md., Mar. 9, 1862

Dear Florence,
We left our camp at Monocacy this A.M. at 2 o'clock but did not reach this place till 1 P.M. We are of course a little tired & somewhat sleepy, but I must write a few letters before I give up for the night. Our Regiment is now all together for the first time since September last. We have had orders to reduce our baggage & be...  

2 2/3 pages, 5 x 8, in ink.

Battlefield of Fair Oaks, Va., June 14th/62

Mother,
Done up within this you'll find the remains of the identical bouquet which you gave me the morning of my departure for the war. Considering the roughness to which its been subjected it looks well. If it could have remained in a vase as a parlor ornament it might have looked better. It has been carried the whole of the time in the pocket of my cartridge box. From Hancock to Fair Oaks is journey enough and I'll not subject it to the dangers of a...