Signed "E L Buterbaugh," two pages, octavo, Fortress Monroe, Virginia, July 5, 1864, to his brother, reading, in part: ."..General Grant is still up in front of Petersburg he is undermining one of the rebel fortes and he is going to try to take Petersburg like he took Vicksburg by undermining it and blowing it up...I swim in the apomatex river it is a very nice place to swim in only we are afraid of the aligators...." The cover has an Old Point Comfort, VA cds and is imprinted with a poem titled "300,000 Strong." The second letter, from Ft. McHenry, Baltimore, un-dated, is signed "O. Morton and retains a cover addressed to Amos L. Buterbaugh of Utah, Pennsylvania, claiming, "there might be an attack in the night."

Private Collection of a Gentleman, Southern MS

Very good overall; some soiling to the patriotic cover.