Raynors HCA 2017-12
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War-date Union officer’s Autograph Letter Signed by Major Philip J. Kearny (Cousin of Gen. Kearny) 3pp. quarto, Camp near Falmouth, Virginia, May 21, 1863, with cover, to the sister of Guy Cox who was mortally wounded in action at Chancellorsville, it reads in part: “...Guy received his wound about six o’clock on Sunday morning. We wer then in the 2nd line of battle on the Gordonsville Road on which the left of our regiment rested. The fight was going on then furiously - and a very heavy fire past over us, our regiment lying down as we could not yet fire on account of our men in front. I was next the colors, and your brother lay just behind me. All at once a sharp fire came upon us. As it was a lunging fire I think it must have been from Rebel Sharpshooters in trees who had caught sight of the colors. In a very few moments both color shafts were broken, and two or three in the group hit. A sergeant in the next company touched me and told me Guy was hit. I turned and saw him lying almost motionless. The ball had entered his brain. I ordered two of my men to take him off the field. He was senseless he did not recognize me....Just then our first line broke and my whole attention was called to my company as we now became the front line...The men who carried him off then reported that his would had been dressed by our regimental surgeon, and then they carried him to the hospital...He had partially come to his senses and recognized them, constantly calling for me. At times he thought I was there and talked as if to me...” Fine condition.
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