Brothers in the 12th Missouri Cavalry write to their parents back home in Missouri.

by Pinkney Asa Banning, Joseph Gilmer Banning

$1,250 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Memphis, TN; Camp Well near Memphis; and Benton Barracks in St. Louis: 14 February–4 November 1864. Six letters 9.75” x 7.5” to 8” x 5” . A total of 20 pp. of manuscript. 1 original envelope included. Three letters include writing from both brothers. CONDITION: Good to fair, one letter bears a 2.75” tear along old horizontal fold but no losses to the text , one letter dampstained, two small holes to two letters with partial

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