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.
MSS 15190
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