4pp+, 8 x 5 in. (fourth page written in very small script), dated at Darien, Georgia, Dec. 12, 1866, addressed to Dear Cousin, no signature. The writer gives a brief descriptions of his circumstances, explaining that he has charge of a store overnight and opens it for the morning shift, that he has gotten fat and sassy since his arrival not long ago, and that the town, while only receiving mail service once a week, now has a government and fire department. He writes (sic): The 54th Mass. Colored Regt. did Darien up brown. The inhabitance were almost all away when they came here and burnyt every thing cclean. There are several hundred chimnies standing now to show where the streets ran and it looks as though it was a very pretty place before the war. I consider the destruction of this place to have been a useless waste of property, as the people were not at all bitter in their sentiment, had never committed any open hostilities, there were no fortifications here and nothing whatever to have caused the niggars to burn it but pure develtry. Condition: Some separation beginning at the fold, else very good.
4pp+, 8 x 5 in. (fourth page written in very small script), dated at Darien, Georgia, Dec. 12, 1866, addressed to Dear Cousin, no signature. The writer gives a brief descriptions of his circumstances, explaining that he has charge of a store overnight and opens it for the morning shift, that he has gotten fat and sassy since his arrival not long ago, and that the town, while only receiving mail service once a week, now has a government and fire department. He writes (sic): The 54th Mass. Colored Regt. did Darien up brown. The inhabitance were almost all away when they came here and burnyt every thing cclean. There are several hundred chimnies standing now to show where the streets ran and it looks as though it was a very pretty place before the war. I consider the destruction of this place to have been a useless waste of property, as the people were not at all bitter in their sentiment, had never committed any open hostilities, there were no fortifications here and nothing whatever to have caused the niggars to burn it but pure develtry. Condition: Some separation beginning at the fold, else very good.
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