“...to Bull Run where we first began to hear of the defeat of Pope ...”

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War-date Union soldier’s Autograph Letter Signed by Sgt. Amos B. Hawley, Co. D, 5th Vermont Infantry, WIA Wilderness, 3pp. quarto, Camp near Alexandria, September 3, 1862 and reads in part: “... we march through Fairfax and Centerville, nearly out to Bull Run where we first began to hear of the defeat of Pope and it soon became evident in the stragglers we met, all runnin in disorder towards Centerville. We, in Smith’s Division, kept on stopping the stragglers as much as possible, and it was amusing to see what ruses the men would make to get by our lines. Some would pretend to be wounded and go limping along, trying to imitate a lame man. Sometimes two or three would be supporting a slightly wounded man who could walk as well as they could...we kept on beyond Bull Run and helped to cover the retreat of Pope’s Army and acted as rear guard back to Centerville...The whole Army has confidence in McClellan and hate McDowell, and call him a traitor. Pope and Halleck are not much thought of as they have done nothing to merit much praise. But if McClellan was put in command of the Army unhampered by the Secy of War, I think we should see different times...” Fine condition.

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