Raynors HCA 2017-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2017
A good war-date Union soldier's letter, 8pp. 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], Vicksburg, Miss., Nov. 18, [1863], in part: "…work on forts has played out. They have set the nigers at it and we have nothing to do but picket…our commanders have been again change[d]. Gen. Force now commands the 1st Brigade and the 32nd Ohio has exchanged places with the 30th Ill. Col. Potts of the 32nd commands the brigade. We have now an Ohio brigade. The 32d Ohio is the Regt brought into the field by Col. Ford of Mansfield and which was taken prisoner at Harpers Ferry…[they] gained some notoriety for a charge made at Champion Hill in which they took a battery of 9 guns. There is a very pretty cemetery near our camp…there us a vault and in it five persons one is a Mr. G. H. Lake killed at Memphis in a duel in 1861 I have seen him several times and he looks as well as before he was killed…Vicksburg has been a great place before the war. Every other house is a saloon or gambling house…Harvey is feeling very well now and has been doing some big bragging…telling how many men he came whip and if an officer asks him to volunteer after he is discharged he will knock him right plumb down and tramp his heart right out…Henry." The original stamped transmittal cover is included. Light soiling, else VG
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