Your Very First American Civil War Relic Find?

he also served with custer as a bat boy whitch iam not sure what that is he came home before custer went to fight the indians

Of course in baseball the bat boy takes care of equipment; in the contemporary British army every officer employed what was called a batman - NOT the superhero of that name! - who was usually an enlisted man from his command detailed (receiving extra pay) as his private manservant rather like a military butler. In the American army these were usually called orderlies. I'm sure this is being said in the English sense of the term, so he was more properly Custer's orderly.

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I have two relics. One is a US Navy Soap box and a soldier's letter, written to his to his commander, while he was in the hospital at Georgetown, D.C. dated September 1862. I believe the soldier's commander was named Whittier. My father in law found them in a garage sale in Michigan. Both, the soap box and the letter is in really nice shape, except for the mirror in the soap box.
 
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