Autograph Letter Signed.  8pp. To “beloved brother” George W. Hensel, Postmaster, Quarrylville, Penn. With original free-franked mailing envelope

“…Almost every day for the week past, five trains of prisoners pass through here enroute for ‘Dixie’ to be exchanged. Some curse us awfully – most want to remain. A great many ‘Contrabands’ of every complexion have passed through for Boston to be enrolled in the colored regiments. They are eager for the chance to fight their oppressors and I believe will do good service."  

 By contrast, Anderson Troop of Buell’s Life Guard "composed of 'young and intelligent gentlemen’ have been acting bad – most of them a swearing low set of bad young men – some of wealthy parents..." The writer was particularly incensed by "that arch infernal Chief of Copperheadism Vallandingham" who had been  "removed South. God grant that many more of the same stripe… be sent after him. I do so hate them Copperheads that I would without scruple cut his throat…"