Saturday, June 9, 2012

1862 June 10 Fredericksburg, Va.

               Fredericksburg, June 10th, 1862
My Dear Little Emma
                          I am sorry I've
tried your patience so but I have
done so to several could not
write before as I have been
quite buisy My boys keep me
thinking working & running
all the while.  Today it is
rainy things are verry quiet
about the quarters and I mean
to write a dozen letters.  I
dont know of anything verry
interesting to write about.
I have quite a number of
little sesesh acquaintances
who sing about the bonny
blue flag and the lone star
about Jeff & Beauregard but
still love the soldiers who
want to get a chance to hang
them.  One little girl the other

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day scolded her brother for
chasing a little union boy to
get the stars and stripes away
from him well they'll think
better of the old flag after a little
There are more niggers about
here than there were at Wash-
ington Ill give you a sketch
of one or rather a family of them
for there were        half a dozen just
alike perhaps           an inch difference
in heighth .        *       black and greasy
at that but                they have
souls and                 fealings.  I
feel sorry for them and
hope the day may come
when the negro may lay
claim to the sympathy
of the haughty silly southerns.
I was glad once more to
hear  from you write again
Emma love to mother
           Your Loving Brother
                                 Aaron

[*sketch of small African American boy in the middle of the page]

Captain Aaron Sager, Co. G, 76th New York Infantry, severely wounded at Gainesville and discharged.  Later the proprietor of a drug store in Cortland, N.Y.


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