[Letter to] Miss Deborah Weston!
Contributors: Weston, Deborah, b.1814 recipient
Series: Deborah Weston Correspondence (1830-1879)
Published: 1862
Place of publication: Camp Stanton, Lynnfield, [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [manuscript]
Subjects: Correspondence; Women abolitionists; Antislavery movements; History
Notes: Holograph, signed.

Augustus Hesse and his unit were mustered into the U.S. army this morning. Hesse reports: "I belong in the 9th Mass. Battery." The town of Weymouth put Hesse out of their quota; Hesse argues that this was wrong. He says: "I was ready to respond to the call for 300,000 men, I was happy that there was giving me a opportunity in Weymouth to put down the Rebellion fighting for Liberty which I so dear love, and to fight against Slavery which I hate." Hesse concludes: "I dit [sic] my duty to fill up the Quota of Weymouth---Will Weymouth do their duty to give me the Bounty they promised me---..."