Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
A good war-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. Henry H. Fulton, Co. E, 20th Ohio Vols. [shot by Rebel guerrillas near Pine Level, N. C.,4/10/65; DOW Raleigh, 4/12/65], Lake Providence, [La.], Mar. 19, 1863, in part: "…we received marching orders last saturday and went on the boats…we staid on the boats until Tuesday when the order was countermanded and we were taken five miles up the river and landed where we are now…before we left Providence the levee was cut and the water let into the lake. The water in the river is nine feet higher than the lake so that it went in with a rush. It will overflow a great deal of country and do great damage. I do not know what the object was for letting the river in. The canal [at De Soto Point opposite Vicksburg] is a failure. When we landed here there were twenty men detailed to guard a plantation and Tom Leggett and I were detailed from our company…Lieut. Jacobs has command of the squad…we sleep in the house and do our cooking in one of the niger houses. The plantation belongs to a widow woman. She pretends to be a Union woman and said the secesh burnt eight hundred bales of cotton…she has 72 bales left. Cotton wights 500 to the bale and is worth one dollar per pound so that eight hundred would be worth a good deal…for a one woman. She has a great deal of property besides and several thousand acres…which was worth $75 per acre before the war. We will stay here on this plantation until the Regt leaves…Henry." The original stamped transmittal cover is included. VG
Click on a thumbnail above to display a larger image below
Hold down the mouse button and slide side to side to see more thumbnails(if available).
Click above for larger image.