Raynors HCA 2017-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/7/2017
Union officer’s letter written by “Clark” (S. Edwards) who enlisted 6/24/1861 as a Captain into I Co. ME 5th Infantry. the four page letter is datelined Camp near Bakerville Md., Oct. 17th 1862. In part, “ I am just in from a ride over the old battlefield of Antietam. The Chaplain & our new acting A.A.G. left camp two o’clock this afternoon ..It is my first visit since the day I visited the grave of poor Brown. I had to visit the spot today again but his remains are gone to the place he held the most sacred on earth, that is his beloved home. ... Then the ground was covered with the dead and dying now there is a patch every few rods with little strips of boards to mark the spot with the name of the one beneath it. .. You could well call it a National Graveyard as men from every state and I might say from every nation on the globe is buried beneath that awful field. Hundreds of people visit the field every pleasant day. I saw them today sisters in search of brother & mother in search of her darling boy and widow in search of their deceased husband. Hardly a day pass that you will not see a black bonnet crape drop or mourning of some kind about the camp a great many from N.Y. & PA. are here after their friends. .. I visited the little church in the edge of the wood but it’s nothing but a wreck. It was from this that one of the Rebel Sharpshooters shot our Medical Director. ...”
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