Raynors HCA 2018-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/21/2018
War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by Joseph Baker, 15th New Jersey Infantry, KIA at Salem Heights, 4pp. octavo, Camp near Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 14, 1862, and reads in part: “...At 2 o’clock pm our company was into it. The rebels were in a trench and we could have no effect on them for they would fire at us and then crawl down and load and we were out on open fire. Soon up came the 4th N.J. Regt and then we charged on them and drove them out of the trench. They soon made a stand and the 4th Regt. formed into a line of battle & we to our company & then it commenced. It last about two hours. The firing was kept up by our pickets until 8 o’clock & in fact, they were firing all night. ...Our Major, Major Brown, was wounded in the leg and our Sergt. Major killed. Capt. Slater was shot in the knee and had to have his knee amputated...Our troops are in possession of Fredericksburg...The rebels fight like bulldogs...” Fine condition.
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