1862 Massachusetts Home Front Letter to a Union Soldier Opposing Governor Andrew, Charles Sumner, and the War’s Association with Emancipation: “It Is Enough for the Poor Soldiers to Fight for the Country’s Freedom Without Fighting for the Damned N—s.”
Charlestown, Massachusetts: November 1862. Autograph letter signed, Sam A. Brown, four pages, written to his brother George, then serving in the Union Army. 3pp, 4 ½ x 7 inches. A revealing Massachusetts home front letter written on the eve of the November 1862 elections, a month after Lincoln’s Preliminary Emancipation.....