Manuscript Letter Signed by Frederick Steubing, a Confederate Soldier, to another Soldier.

One plain brown lettersheet, 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in folded format, about 2 1/2 pages of text. Creased, a small hole, only affecting one letter, some aging; otherwise very good. Includes a typed transcript. This is a letter from Frederick Steubing, a Confederate soldier, to J.H. Williams, another Confederate soldier, describing various events and combat in a humorous way. Steubing tells of a very merry Christmas parted that ended with most of the company getting drunk. "We had a jolly time of it Christmas here, the biggest part of the company got drunk and we throwed in with them, I got as drunk as a fool and you bet I was sick the next day." Steubing asks Williams for news of his friends, and tells him about some of the action he saw on the Mississippi. "I got a good look at the old gunboats and you bet I heard them belch several times at us whenever we would shoot at the transport with our cannon and small arms... the cannon balls would cut down trees as big as anybody and you bet that the cannon balls would make boys hug the levy and eat sand." The rough brown paper used for this letter would seem to reflect the scarcity of supplies among Confederate soldiers.