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], Haynes Bluff, [Miss.], June 2, 1863, in part: "…I am not sure this will go through. There are no letters written in the regiment. It is reported Grant wont let them go farther than Memphis but there is a sergeant here on duty on one of the ammunition boats. He says he can send this through….I read your letter in the rifle pits in front of the enemies largest fortifications and within less than two hundred yards of them. Our company was detailed as sharp shooters. We did not loss a man at Vicksburg…in a short time after I got your letter the Rebs sent in a flag of truce …this was at about four o'clock in the afternoon and hostilities ceased until eight that night. After the firing stopped the forts and borders of the rifle pits were lined with men. Our men rushed across the fields to the forts and the Rebel and Union soldiers were soon mixed together as friendly as if they were all brothers. It was a strange sight. An hour before we were shooting each other and now talking and joking. The main body of the army was kept out of sight. Just those in the rifle pits were permitted to show themselves. The night of the 25th we felt Vicksburg on the road between the Big Black and Yazoo rivers. We were 40 miles and come down the Yazoo bottoms to Haynes Bluff…Vicksburg is not taken yet. How much longer they will hold out is hard to tell. There has been hard fighting through this country. The northern papers report Vicksburg taken and do not give a correct account of any of the battles except the one at Port Gibson…we are constantly receiving reinforcements. The boys are all well except those wounded at Raymond…the wounded men left at Raymond were taken prisoners and paroled and are now on their way home…Capt. DeGollier [Samuel DeGolyer, Battery H, 1st Mich. Light Artillery] Will Bell's captain was wounded yesterday and died today…Henry." The original stamped transmittal cover is included. VG
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