4 page letter in dark ink, easily read, from Eugene D. Rogers, who was a civilian working with the Union army in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  The beauty of this letter is Rogers’s description of the hardships that many of the soldiers had to endure: 

                “I have seen soldiers picking up grains of corn out of manure after the mules had eaten it, then wash it, parch it, and eat it.  I have seen soldiers pay 25 cents for a krubin of corn to parch and eat.  I have seen them pay 25 cents for an army cracker, and I have seen them at the slaughter yard pay enormous prices for the intestines, which before they could not have been paid enough to eat.

And this day have I seen them coming in from the front in their shirtsleeves without either shoes or stockings on their feet or blackest to wrap themselves in at night.  The ground is frozen hard, and their feet were bleeding from having to walk barefooted on it…”

The condition of this letter is only fair with separations at the folds repaired with document tape.  The letter is still very displayable and the graphic content definitely adds color.