A Pair of Letters Written by the Wife of a 105th Illinois Officer at the Close of the Civil War, Centered on a Suspicious Figure Carrying a Valuable Object and the Fear of Deception, and of Losing Her Husband: “He has told half a doz different stories already about his capture […] Such conflicting ones create suspicion.”
[Sycamore, DeKalb County, Illinois]: April 2 and April 12, 1865. Two autograph letters, signed “Rosa,” docketed on rear likely in Everell Dutton’s hand, 4 and 5 pages, 8 x 5 inches. Two letters written in the final weeks of the Civil War by Rosina Adelpha Paine Dutton of Sycamore, Illinois.....