Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
War-date Union soldier's Seven Days Campaign letter, 1 1/4pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. David W. Sharpe, Co. B, 1st Conn. Hvy. Art., "City Point Landing, [Va.], July 4, 1862," in part: "…I suppose you are celebrating Fourth of July in great style. we have been fighting nearly every day for two weeks. The hardest fight we have been in was in General Smith's division on the 27th. We have had only one man killed in our company-that was [Corp.] Thomas Hyland [at Golding's Farm]. Andrew Bodge was wounded in the leg by a shot from one of our gunboats fired at us by mistake…[wounded during the battle of Malvern Hill and also captured there only ot be soon exchanged]…David." VG
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