7th Connecticut Vols Letter from Florida

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War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by John G. Rowely 7th Connecticut Volunteers, 8pp. octavo, Camp Starr, Fernandina, Florida, April 19, 1863, and reads in part: “...I did not get time to write you before the mail left here after the expedition to Charleston. However, it was of no great worth except the wonderful power with which those monitors, the ironsides, also the batteries (floating) resisted the enfilading fire from the forts and batteries that commanded the harbor and channel. I think the notorious guns that fired those polished steel-pointed projectiles were of English manufacture and import...More than nine tenths of the munitions and support of the Rebels that they have desired from foreign sources during the war has come through this one pesky channel...It can be taken now with the Navy we have got. The first impediment that Ironclads met with was a heavy iron chain netting connected with which was supposed to be torpedoes as they approaced a given point and struck this chain work. A Rebel on the parapet of Fort Sumter with a flag gave the signal, and all poured forth their calibrated contents upon those objects with the evident intention of sink them at once...Admiral Dupont withdrew most of his boats. I understand a part of his fleet was ordered to Vicksburg...Here is my toast to the Rebels at the second attack. May their repast be the science of the best officers of the Army and Navy, their provisions, hot shot and shell, their tea & coffee, hot water from the ironclads, and their quinine a full compliment of the best Hazards powder...and the ill-fated Charleston shall be no more. And let that Rebel press ‘The Hartford Times’ be jerked into the same conflagration with its editor, chained to a whipping post in the center of the flames, and Jeff Davis to untie him in the hottest of the fire with seven of the best English guns pointed to the incarnate, lump loaded with the bones and grave of John C. Calhoun...” Much more. Fine condition.

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