James Maxwell
Company D, 127th Illinois Infantry
” Have you heard that Frank Stevens had sold Billy and Charley. I heard he sold them to the U.S. to go into the Cavalry and got the cash for them. …” James Maxwell,
Undated
—Dear Brother Georgy
I guess I will try and write a few lines to you as well as the rest. Have you heard that Frank Stevens had sold Billy and Charley. I heard he sold them to the U.S. to go into the Cavalry and got the cash for them. Ask father what security he had for the horses. I am afraid he will lose them if he is not careful. He had better find out about it as soon as possible. I am afraid if he had no mortgage on them, he will lose them entirely. I wish he had never sold them to him. About A. and myself, we are so as to eat double rations and guess we will get along at present and will have to wind up.
Write soon…
your loving brother—Jimmy
Read more letters in the Maxwell Collection: Biography | undated | 5 June 1863 | February 15, 1863 | 24 March 1863 | 29 May 1871 | 30 Sept. 1873