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![2 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Edgar B. Bennett. Comes with stamped cover addressed to Miss Mary E. Marsh, Burlington, Milford County, Connecticut. C.D.S., Alexandria, Va., Feb. 28/64, with partial 3 cents rose George Washington postage stamp with bullseye cancellation.
<b><u>Fort Richardson, [Va.], Feb. 27th, 1864</b></u>
Dear Minnie,
It is with joy that I now seat myself to write you these few lines. I am well. I hope this may find you the same. I wrote you a letter yesterday. I directed it to Father for I put in $25 dollars for you. I directed it to him for I thought it would be more apt to get to you Minnie. I have had so much to do lately. I have not done as I ought to have done in writing, but I have got things now so that I shall write again. I have been marketing today. I bought 60 lbs. butter & a ½ barrel of pickles and 75 lbs cheese and that won’t last more than 3 weeks. I also got me a lamp and some oil so as to have better light to write by. We do not have any news here except that the story is that the War Department has concluded to pay the soldiers $16 a month. I hope it is so. I wrote to Capt. Beach yesterday and told him that he told me if I counted on the quota of the town that he would give me $100. I also told him to pay whatever he did to Father. I cannot think of any more to write so I will close by sending my love to all.
I remain your true friend,
Edgar B. Bennett
Minnie be a good girl & Eddie will be a good boy
A small slip of paper was found inside of the envelope that reads: Corp. Edgar B. Bennett, Co. H, 1st C.V. Art. Light age toning and wear. Very fine.
Edgar B. Bennett, was a resident of Burlington, Conn., when he enlisted on May 23, 1861, as a corporal, and was mustered into the 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery. He was promoted to Q.M. Sergeant, May 28, 1864, and mustered out of service, on Sept. 25, 1865.](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/ul1687a.jpg)
![<b>Famous 19th Century American Actor
Autograph Letter Signed</b>
(1829-1905) Born in Philadelphia to an acting family, he was commonly known as Joe Jefferson, and became one of America's most famous actors of the 19th century. He performed continuously with his half brother Charles Burke, and the rest of their family, traveling from theatre to threatre all across America. They even followed the American Army from 1846-48, during the Mexican War. Jefferson's portrayal of Rip Van Winkle would become one of the most celebrated characters of the stage in the 19th century. In 1858, Jefferson appeared as Asa Trenchard, in Our American Cousin, at Laura Keene's Theatre in New York. It was Keene's troop who were performing Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on the night of April 14, 1865, when President Lincoln was assassinated. Jefferson later appeared in Hamlet with the celebrated actor, Edwin Booth, brother of Lincoln assassin, John Wilkes Booth. No man in his profession was more honored than Joe Jefferson for his achievements. He was the friend of many of the leading men in American politics, art and literature including President Grover Cleveland.
<u>Autograph Letter Signed</u>: 3 pages, 4 1/2 x 7, in ink.
35 Madison Ave.
Tuesday Morning
My Dear [?]
I have just recd. the enclosed which I submit for your consideration as you are more familiar with the arrangements than I am in consequence of my late absence from the city. Will you kindly reply to it. I fancy that it is too late to accept the picture tho' it might be a [?]. If you have not time to reply I will see you usual time today and attend to it.
Faithfully Yours,
J. Jefferson
Age toning at the edge, otherwise very fine.](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/auto3386a.jpg)
