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“…we shall cross at the same place at the time of the Balls Bluff disaster… ancious to avenge the death of our many fallen comerads.”
MARK KENNEY,
Autograph Letter Signed, Camp Stone, January 24, 1862. 4 pp. 8 vo. Some tears with no loss of text.
Item #21265.05, $250
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New Jersey Soldier Expects Battle Soon
ALBERT [M. RUNYON*],
Autograph Letter Signed, to his parents [George and Mary Runyon*], October 31, 1863, 4 pp.
“I hardly think old Lee will show fight. During this Campain without he is forced, we may have a brush with him when we get down the Rappahanock.”
Item #21265.08, $200
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New York Soldier Reports on Fort Sumter before It Was Taken
ABRAM BOGART,
Autograph Letter Signed, to a “friend,” South Carolina, October 10, 1863, 4 pp. 8vo.
“I am quite lame with the kidney complaint but not bad enough to fetch me home yet for they wont let a man go home as long as he can go and then they had rather he would die here for they die here every day....if you have got any friends that talk of coming tell him to join the masons or odfellows or some other d n d disorder and stay at home”
Item #21265.06, $375
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After Successfully Taking Fort Wagner with the Help of African American Troops, Union Consolidates Firepower on Fort Sumter and Charleston
CALVIN SHEDD,
Autograph Letter, to his wife Sarah A. Shedd, with original envelope, General Hospital, Hilton Head, South Carolina, September 20, 1863. 4 pp. 4vo.
“Fts Wagner & Gregg are being put in a state of defence & a new one of large size commenced at this end of the Island so that a small force can hold it against anything the Rebs can do; that will leave the remainder of the Troops for service at some other point.”
Item #21265.07, $275
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A Middle-Aged Private in the 140th New York ‘Rochester Race Horses’ Writes His Wife
ERASTUS U. POLLAY,
Autograph Letter Signed, to Julia A. Pollay, May 31, 1863, Falmouth, VA, 2 pp, 8vo., one slight fold cut (text not affected), otherwise fine condition.
“I have bin Down to the River this Morning and had A good wash and my Body is Clan Enough to sleep with a Woman but that Cant be So I must be Content untill I get out of this War and then I will see you About that”
Item #21265.12, $250
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Union Brown Water Navy Celebrates the Fourth of July by Bombarding Vicksburg
WILLIAM H. KINNEY,
Autograph Letter Signed, July 13, 1862, “U.S.S. Gunboat Benton, Off Vicksburg,” 4 pp., 5 x 8 in.
“We had quite a time on the fourth of this month we commenced to celebrate the day with our morters by throwing shell into the City of Vicksburge we knocked down quite a number of buildings during the day. At 12 oclock we fired a salute of 100 guns from the gun boats, and a national salute with the morters into the City.”
Item #21265.22, $450
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Civil War Song Sheet: When Johnny Comes Marching Home
[PATRICK GILMORE],
Broadside, “When Johnny comes marching home.” Philadelphia, Johnson & Co., Song Publishers. [1863-65]. 6 x 9 in., 1 p.
When Johnny comes marching home again, Hurrah! Hurrah! / We’ll give him a hearty welcome then, Hurrah! Hurrah!...
Item #22946, $375
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Union Soldier Hopes the Draft Will Replenish His Devastated Regiment
L. A. GRAHAM,
Autograph Letter Signed, on patriotic letterhead, to his sister, August 18, 1862, Paterson’s Park Hospital, Baltimore, 3 pp.
“i think that I shal go to my rigment in a weak or to they hant but 73 men left in my rigment so the paper says so that i dont no as i could find them if i should try to....i am glad they are a goen to draft so they will be apt to get som of them that is a fraid they will half to sleap on the ground”
Item #21265.29, $150
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Battling Mosquitoes and Confederates at the Mouth of Charleston Harbor
CHARLES BRANT,
Autograph Letter Signed, October 11, 1863, Folly Island, 3 pp. large 8vo.
“[I am] still alive and hearty although the mosquitoes have half eaten me. Charleston is not yet taken!!!”
Item #21265.28, $200
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Evacuating Elizabeth City and Leaving Nothing for the Rebels, to the Dismay of Freedpeople and Unionists
THOMAS BOURNE,
Autograph Letter Signed, April 18, 1863, Elizabeth City, [North Carolina]. 2 pp., 8vo.
“this place is to be evacuated all the troops and the gunboats leave with us there is a general move of the darkeys they all want to go with us they do not dare to stay here after we leave for fear of the guerrillas I believe we are to take every thing with us that can be of use to the rebs”
Item #21265.25, $300
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On the Lookout for Joseph Wheeler’s Johneys as Sherman Closes on Atlanta
WILLIAM HELSLEY,
Autograph Letter Signed, August 29, [1864], Chattanooga, Tennessee, 3 pp. 8vo.
“a scout came in and told us that old Wheeler had crossed the river above with three thousand and was comming down to burn the Bridge and we went to work and built some works to protect us and keep the devils at bay and hold them untill we got reinforced and then we put out pickets and I went out about one mile and was out all night and looked for the Johneys but we looked in vain”
Item #21265.24, $200
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God, Prayer, and Heavy Ordnance Will Help 10th Connecticut Take Charleston
BENJAMIN WRIGHT,
Autograph Letter Signed, to his wife Abbie, August 2, 1863, Morris Island, S.C., 4 pp.
“I think Charleston must fall this time but we need something beside men and heavy ordinance. we need the help of God if we go forth in his name and strength, he will lead us to victory.”
Item #21265.23, $275
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Union Soldier’s Letter to his Cousin from Embattled Washington
GEORGE BOWERS,
Autograph Letter Signed, September 10, 1861, Washington, D.C. 3 pp., on patriotic stationery; with partial patriotic cover from Birney’s Regiment.
Item #21265.21, $250
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One of Five Brothers in the Union Army Sees His Duty
AUSTIN LAMPREY,
Autograph Letter Signed, to his mother, Bridget P. Lamprey, December 16, 1864, McClellan Hospital, Hampton, Virginia. 4 pp., 8vo. with envelope.
“Some one has got to do this Work I might as Well do it as any one els but just as they think not as I care I Stood it two years in the feld most I gess I can Stand Nine months more…”
Item #21265.20, $250
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Unusual Caricatures of Southern Aristocrats by Union Soldier on Letter to Parents
SAMUEL HYDE,
Fragment of an Autograph Letter Signed, to his parents, no date [1861-1865], with his drawing of a “Suthern lady.” 2 pp.
“…the woods was ful of ded rebs”
Item #21265.17, $225
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Union Soldier Tells His Wife of the Rebel Attack on New Bern, North Carolina
HENRY PICKFORD,
Fragment of Autograph Letter Signed, to his wife Sarah Pickford, c. March 1863. 2 pp.
“we had quite an excitement in Newbern about a week ago the rebels made three or four attacks on the City and were finally repulsed we lost one man on board of one of the Gunboats that is all”
Item #21265.13, $140
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New York Soldier Tells His Sister They Plan to Finish the War Soon
RICHARD SLADE,
Autograph Letter Signed, to his sister Mary A. Slade, March 10, 1865, 3 pp.
“Those four legged Grey backs have about played out but there is a plenty of two legged ones here yet....We are going to try & Cleanse out these Johneys this summer & come home next winter”
Item #21265.11, $150
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Great Union Soldier’s Letter about Sherman’s “Retreat on Savannah”
JOHN B. COOPER,
Autograph Letter Signed, to his wife Mary Cooper. Fort Alexander Hays, VA, December 21, 1864, 3 pp.
Item #21265.02, $300
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A Late-War Draft in New Orleans
[NOTICE OF DRAFT],
Partially Printed Document Signed by G. W. Richardson as assistant commissary of musters. Notice of Draft to William S. G. Green. New Orleans, Louisiana, April 12, 1865. 1 p.; with envelope addressed to Green at 467 Tchoupitoulas Street.
Item #21264.11, $175
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Lincoln Proclaims a National Day of Humiliation and Prayer
[ABRAHAM LINCOLN],
Broadside, “A Proclamation for a Day of Humiliation and Prayer,” July 7, 1864, printed under a forwarding Proclamation by Governor John Andrew of Massachusetts, July 28, 1864. 1 p. 18¼ x 27¾ in.
The president calls on loyal citizens to implore the “Supreme Ruler of the World, not to destroy us as a people.”
Item #24675, $5,500
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