Item #42429 TENALLYTOWN D. C. JULY 26TH 1864. DEAREST WIFE, I WILL NOW TRY TO WRITE A FEW LINES TO YOU IN ORDER TO LET YOU KNOW HOW I AM GETTING ALONG. I AM IN THE ENJOYMENT OF GOOD HEALTH. . . FROM YOUR HANDS I ALSO GOT THAT SPEECH OF McCLELLAN AND I THINK IT THE STAMP OF FERVID PATRIOTISM AND SHOULD HE BE THE CHOSEN CANDIDATE AT THE NOMINATION I WILL SUPPORT HIM. . . FROM YOUR HUSBAND TILL DEATH - JOS. FOREMAN. Ohio Soldier's Civil War Letter, Joseph Foreman.
TENALLYTOWN D. C. JULY 26TH 1864. DEAREST WIFE, I WILL NOW TRY TO WRITE A FEW LINES TO YOU IN ORDER TO LET YOU KNOW HOW I AM GETTING ALONG. I AM IN THE ENJOYMENT OF GOOD HEALTH. . . FROM YOUR HANDS I ALSO GOT THAT SPEECH OF McCLELLAN AND I THINK IT THE STAMP OF FERVID PATRIOTISM AND SHOULD HE BE THE CHOSEN CANDIDATE AT THE NOMINATION I WILL SUPPORT HIM. . . FROM YOUR HUSBAND TILL DEATH - JOS. FOREMAN.

TENALLYTOWN D. C. JULY 26TH 1864. DEAREST WIFE, I WILL NOW TRY TO WRITE A FEW LINES TO YOU IN ORDER TO LET YOU KNOW HOW I AM GETTING ALONG. I AM IN THE ENJOYMENT OF GOOD HEALTH. . . FROM YOUR HANDS I ALSO GOT THAT SPEECH OF McCLELLAN AND I THINK IT THE STAMP OF FERVID PATRIOTISM AND SHOULD HE BE THE CHOSEN CANDIDATE AT THE NOMINATION I WILL SUPPORT HIM. . . FROM YOUR HUSBAND TILL DEATH - JOS. FOREMAN.

Tenleytown, DC: 1864. Octavo leaf, folded to four lined pages. Pages 1-3 written in neat ink manuscript, page 4 blank. Accompanied by the postal envelope with July 26 cancel, no postage stamp but with rubberstamp "Due 3." Addressed to "Mrs. Millicent Foreman, Canal Fulton, State of Ohio." Envelope is dusted and worn. Letter is Very Good.

Foreman, of the 126th Ohio infantry, evidently wrote prolifically to his wife Nellie. to whom he was obviously devoted. He served from September 1862 for the duration of the War and in Virginia battles. Item #42429

Price: $350.00

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