(Spanish-American War) Mil. Sta. No. 1 Manila, Phil. Isl'ds. Mar 19 '1900. Duplex ties Philippines 2¢ red (214) on cover to Somerville Mass., purple "G.H. Bodge. H,C." straightline handstamp and endorsed "Soldier's Mail.", Boston Somerville Station (5.2) machine arrival backstamp, original enclosed letter datelined "Military Hospital #3, March 17, 1900" with some interesting content on camp life, New Years Celebration, Filipino Men and Women and the Chinese merchants which do most of the business there including Opium, reading in part: "On visiting Paco cemetary where Lawton's body lay, many of our boys are still laying there. Caskets are placed in niches of walls, built the slope of circles. Peculiar trees, smoothe bark, with many large clusters of sweet yellow flowers, without leaves, grow between 1st & second walls. A Chapel in the center. I saw where 204 soldiers had been intered. Some had good and large marble slabs. A red tile with the number scratched on them marked the resting place of many…" and signed "From a Somerville Boy in the Orient, George H. Bodge, Hospital Crops", Very Fine.
Estimate; $200 - 300. Est. $200-300 (Image)

Est. $200-300