2006-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/31/2006
An historic war-date Union soldier's, 4pp. 8vo., letter written in ink by Pvt. Albert J. Whitley, Co. C, 141st New York Vols., White House Landing, Va., June 29, 63 to his sister concerning the capture of Brig. Gen. George W. C. Lee's home by Union troops in 1863, reading, in part: "…we left Lisbon bridge the 26th…the 9th army Corps arrived here the day before we did…the 11th Pa Cavalry was the first Regt. to land, they advanced to within eight miles of Richmond & captured the baggage train of an entire Division of the Rebel army…eighty Rebs & Brigadier General Lee, son of General Lee Commander in Chief of the Rebel army. There is a very large army here perhaps 40,000 men, troops are landing nearly all of the time Suffolk has been evacuated so that all the troops in Dix's department that could be spared might assist in the Capture of Richmond…General Foster from North Car[olina] is advancing up the James River…Charles Potts is here he is a carpenter on the Steam boat. The army…is encamped on the Plantation of the Brigadier General Lee. The clearing is one mile in width by two in length, there is 10,000 acres in the whole farm…it is no wonder that people fear the draft, it is a bad thing to be a drafted soldier, there is a Regt. of them here…". Whitley enlisted in August 1862 servicing in southern Virginia, in the Atlanta Campaign until he was wounded at Resaca, Ga. on May 15, 1864, and Sherman's March to the Sea. Before being discharged he was promoted to sergeant. Minor soiling, else very good.
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