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![<b>Written by a soldier mortally wounded in the Antietam campaign!</b>
<b><u>Camp Augur, Upton’s Hill, Va., Jan. 26th/62</b></u>
4 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Francis Aubin, to his sisters Eliza and Matilda, on a patriotic letter sheet that is trimmed in red and blue along the edges. Comes with the original patriotic postal cover that has an embossed vignette of General Winfield Scott holding an American flag. The verse below reads: Brave In The Field. A True Patriot. Loyal To The Constitution And Union. Addressed to Miss Eliza Aubin, Victory Mills, Saratoga Co., N.Y., with a 3 cents rose George Washington postage stamp [#56], with C.D.S., Washington, D.C., Jan. 27, 1862.
Dear Sister,
I take the first opportunity of writing you a few lines in answer to yours of the 20th which I just received and recd. with great pleasure. I was very glad to hear from you again, to hear that you was enjoying good health, and your kind letter found me enjoying the same blessing as it left you. I was very sorry to hear that Mr. Marsel’s family was sick. I hope that when you write next time they will be better. Eliza you must give my best respects to Mr. Marsel and his wife and family. Tell them that I don’t forget my friends, although I am not very well acquainted with them, but as far as I am acquainted with them, I consider them as my best friends. Dear Sister, I received a letter from John last evening and I answer[ed] as soon as I got it. He did not tell me when he expected to leave Boonville, but if they do come when they get here in Washington, we will have a bully old time I bet. Eliza you spoke about the time that you hurried home last winter. That was quite a hurry time. That is the fact. I hope that you will not be obliged to hurry in that manner this winter. You said that you wish we all be to home this winter as we was last. I wish the same but I guess I shall remain in old Virginia. As I want to drop a line to Tilda I will have to close these for the present. Good by from your brother. Frank Aubin to Eliza.
Camp Augur, Jan. 26th/62
Dear Sister,
I received yours of the 20th and just sat down to answer it. Tilda I wrote you a letter last evening because I thought that you had not got the last one I sent you. Dear Sister, you asked me my little pullet’s name. Well her name will be Aubin before long. I shall give her your respects as soon as I see her, and about telling her to keep her nose clean, I can see it. I guess you had better keep yours clean and my pullet and I will take care of ourselves. Dear Sister, tell Mrs. Hill that I am glad that she don’t forget me, and I don’t forget her. I often think of all my friends, and I hope and trust that I may see them all again. Please give Mr. and Mrs. Hill my best respects and to all your best friends. Matilda you asked me if I heard from Mary Montee lately. No I have not. You said that my little gal that lives to Sandy Hill was married to a shoemaker. Bully for her. I wish she would make me a pair of boots and send to me. I be very much obliged to her. Tilda I am going to see Joseph Vermel tomorrow and what shall I tell him, that you love him as much as ever, or not. I guess I shall not say a word about you, that is of your love. I will now close my letter by asking you to write soon and give you my love. Good night from your affectionate brother, Frank Aubin, to his dear sister Matilda Aubin.
Eliza, I sent a letter to Tilda last night, and I sent old Dick’s likeness in it which is for you not Tilda, but you Eliza.
Write soon. F.A.
Very fine patriotic letter and cover.
Francis [Frank] Aubin was 21 years old when he enlisted at Glen Falls, N.Y., as a private, on May 7, 1861. He was mortally wounded on September 14, 1862, in the battle of South Mountain, Md., during the Antietam campaign. He died from his wounds the next day.](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/ul1701a.jpg)
![<b>Written by a soldier mortally wounded in the Antietam campaign!</b>
3 plus pages, 5 x 8, in ink, on patriotic lettersheet with full color vignette of interlocking stars with a Union shield in the center. Comes with the original, matching patriotic envelope, addressed in ink to Miss Eliza Aubin, Victory Mills, Saratoga Co., N.Y., with 3 cents rose George Washington postage stamp [#56] with partial Washington, D.C. postmark.
<b><u>Headquarters 22 Regt. N.Y.V., Upton’s Hill, Virginia, Oct. 17/61</b></u>
Good Morning Eliza,
How are you this morning and how is your health. I hope it is good. Mine is tip top. I feel almost as happy as I did that morning after that dream. Oh what a happy dream that was, was it not. When you see my woman I guess you better tell her to look for another man for I got me another wife. Maybe there is no need of you telling her to get another man. Probably she has got one by this time, but if she has everything is all right. Dear sister your letter of the 13[th] was received last night with sister Tilda[‘s]. I received 5 letters last night besides of them two that I received from you and Tilda. I tell you I was very happy to read them all. It was a great blessing to me for I hadn’t received a letter before since Sunday, and I generally get between 6 and 10 letters a week, and I began to think that I would not get any this week, but now I have and I expect [a] couple more tonight. Dear sister I am glad to hear that you and Matilda make your home to Mr. Hill and that you like to stay there so well. I think that I would like to stay there myself although I never been there but [a] couple times when I was to home. Eliza you must give me my best respects to Mr. and Mrs. Hill and all, so to Mr. Marsal[‘s] family and to all your friends. Dear sister I have no news to tell you this time for I wrote to you last Sunday, and there is nothing that happen[ed] since then, so I will have to close for the present. Write as soon and often as you can. Good by Eliza.
From your affectionate brother,
Frank
Miss Eliza in closing my letter I will give three cheers for the people of Victory, but especially for the Aubin girls. Good by.
I will not go home. Go home, oh no, not until the war is over. I must stand by the stars and stripes until they are out of danger.
Very desirable matching patriotic lettersheet and postally used envelope sent from a soldier who would be killed during the war.
Francis [Frank] Aubin was 21 years old when he enlisted at Glen Falls, N.Y., as a private, on May 7, 1861. He was mortally wounded on September 14, 1862, in the battle of South Mountain, Md., during the Antietam campaign. He died from his wounds the next day.](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/ul1700a.jpg)
