8 February 1863
Jones, Ira D., fl. 1862-1863
Autograph letter signed
Title: to Sarah Ogden
Requests a loan of two hundred dollars to pay for his home. Says he will pay the loan back over four years. Offers to give Ogden a mortgage on the house if she grants him this favor. Identifies himself to Ogden as a soldier she nursed in a Philadelphia hospital, whose left hand was wounded, and to whom she gave a pillow to rest the hand on during his journey home.
GLC06559.055