Raynors HCA 2018-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/15/2018
War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by George D. Adams, 7th Massachusetts Light Artillery, 6pp. quarto, White River Landing, Arkansas, September 9, 1864, and reads in part: “....The next place of importance we arrived at was Vicksburg...It is located on a very high bluff, but not as I had always supposed principally on the top, but it is on the slope towards the river although it extends clear to the top. The streets run right along the side of the hill, which is steeper than mother’s garden. It is quite a large place and contains many fine buildings one of which is the court house which a large quite building with a very high steeple in which there is a clock. It is situated nearly on the top of the bluff, so it can be seen for miles around and was used as a targe by our artillery during the siege. Many of the houses around are completely riddled with shot and shell....The top of the bluff for miles is one continual string of forst and beyond the country seems to have been all dug up for miles...” Fine condition.
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