[AFRICAN-AMERICANA] Letter by a 6th Ohio Cavalry veteran advocating black suffrage. La Grange, Iowa, June 1865.

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Manuscript in ink, [3] pp. quarto (245 x 195 mm); headed Lagrange, Lucas Co., Iowa, June 12th 1865 , the letter is addressed Dear Miller and is signed at the foot Your friend, J. E. Wood ; accompanied by the original postal envelope, addressed to L. D. Miller Esq., Newton Falls, Trumbull Co., Ohio , with pen-cancelled 3¢ rose postage stamp and sender s address and date of June 15th at upper left, verso blank; the letter with original folds and some toning, but very well preserved; the envelope with some light staining and old pencil scribbles to the front. A white Iowa farmer s impassioned and eloquent plea for black suffrage, written in June 1865. Around the grim and frowning works of Petersburg and Richmond the blood of white and black freely flowed in the same crimson tide. This remarkable letter was written just two months after the end of the Civil War by a veteran of the 6th Ohio Cavalry, J. E. Wood, who has now taken up farming in La Grange, Lucas County, Iowa. It is addressed to one of his regimental comrades, L. D. Miller now also a farmer in Newton Falls, Trumbull County, Ohio. The 6th Ohio Cavalry had taken part in the Richmond–Petersburg campaign between June 1864 and March 1865. Partial transcription of the letter: I do [believe] Lupe(?) Miller, some pretty girl will take pity on you and rescue you from your perilous situation. I do believe you are convalescent now, and if you take a relapse I am afraid you are gone. I hope the remedy is not far distant. How do y

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