Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
War-date Union soldier's letter, 3 1/2pp. 8vo., written, on Gen. McClellan portrait stationery, by Pvt. David W. Sharpe, Co. B, 1st Conn. Hvy. Art., [n. p., but near Yorktown, Va.], April 11, 1862, in part: "…we landed from the boat last night and have been to work hard a good deal of the time unloading our siege guns and mortars. I suppose you have heard the report that the "Merrimac" and "Island No. Ten" [are] taken. I picked up a piece of paper with photographic writing on it on the banks of the Potomac before I left Fort Scott…yesterday afternoon General McClellan and staff came here and we turned out and gave him 9 cheers. We are now only six or seven miles from Yorktown which we expect to attack soon. We shall move forward as soon as we get our siege guns mounted which will be in a day or two. Some of the boys have got some of those facsimiles of Confederate bills printed in New York…cost five cents apiece (5 and 10 dollar bills)…[we] are passing them among the Secessionists around here, buying things and getting genuine Southern money in change. It will be a good joke on them when they find…out…a balloon was sent up near here reconnoitering this morning…[April 13]…we have moved forward…we are now lying in camp behind a piece of woods only two miles from the rebel's batteries at Yorktown and within range of their guns. Our company has ten thirty-two pounders and the other companies have the mortars. We shall attack Yorktown as soon as we get the batteries made and get more ammunition here. There are between one and two hundred thousand troops around here…Dave." VG
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