LETTER BY SOLDIER IN 124TH N.Y. INFANTRY

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KILLED ON MAY 12, 1864 AT THE BATTLE OF SPOTSYLVANIA. 3 2/3 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, with the original envelope which is addressed to Miss F. Emily Howell, Howells, Orange Co., New York, with 3 cents postage stamp, with C.D.S., Washington, D.C., Feb. 1863. Written to his sister Emily. The letter reads in part: "Division Hosp., Feb. 11th/63. I have been well a week or two but my legs remain so weak that I have made a cane to walk about with. My box came to me this morning and everything was in good order except the chicken which was covered over with mold but I guess it will be good inside. I am very thankful for the dried fruit you sent. A good many of our regiment are going home on furlough. We have had some cold weather here and it looks like storming today. The notion of going to Acquia has been abandoned and the tents are to be sent to the division hospitals. Beds and matresses arrived here last night. We have been getting soft bread for the last week and it went good I'll assure you. We buy butter at sixty cents per pound. Cheese forty, apples five cents each. Sutlers are doing a thriving business but they do not have any stock on hand half the time. Mr. Reuben C. Miller is here and will take his son home discharged. Quite a good many discharged. There was six loads of boxes arrived for our regiment last night and the boys are read more

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