April 12, 2024
1862 CIVIL WAR Field Relic HOLY BIBLE Hospital W P BROOKS Soldier SOLD FOR CIGAR
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The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, etc. New York: American Bible Society, 1862. Original leather blindstamped binding withn deisgining, light wear, mostly just to edges, all page edges gilt, working bass clasp. Pages light foxed, last page with some faded stamps, front has some papers glued down on the EPs with a super interesting message from a soldier in the field hospital in Quincy, Illinois, 1863,"August 23rd, 1863: On this day a soldier in this hospital I bought this book fr ten cents just one third the former cost. (undecipherabe) found the young mans reason for disposing of the book to be this, 'I am out of money and I can get for the money what I want' What was it? Cigars, foolish man...And to you Thomas C Brooks, my dear brother I present this testament, sell not your birthright for a mess of pottage but search the scriptures. From your brother, W. P. Brooksin hospital in Quincy, Illinois. " During the Civil War, the Union Army established a military hospital just south of Quincy, adjacent to Woodland Cemetery. The site’s access to the Mississippi River allowed for the easy transport of wounded soldiers from battlefields in the south. This was probably where Brooks was. FRecrds indicate it was a General Hospital, with over 950 beds. While we cannot identify Wm P Brooks, there are records below showing
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