Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
War-date Union soldier's letter, 2 1/2pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. David W. Sharpe, Co. B, 1st Conn. Hvy. Art.,"Camp near Harrison's Landing, [Va.], Aug. 7, 1862," in part: "…we marched our battery into the entrenchments. We are about a mile from the Landing. Last Friday the rebels opened [fire] on the shipping and the camps opposite Harrison's Landing. The rest of our regiments that are camped near the Landing had their batteries placed on the bank of the river and when the rebels opened, they fell in and marched to their guns and immediately commenced to return their fire. They soon silenced them. One of our boys (Thomas Bussing) who was on detached service in one of the light batteries…was taken prisoner [but] got back to the company yesterday. He was exchanged as a prisoner of war…there is a call for six hundred thousand more troops and that there will be a draft for the last three hundred thousand. If you have any thought of enlisting I wish you would enlist for this regiment. If there is no recruiting officer…in New Haven you can come on here on the government boat, paying your own passage, which will be paid back…on pay day…anyway, if you enlist, come and enlist in this company…David." VG
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