Raynors HCA 2018-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/21/2018
A good Union officer’s eight page letter written by Lt. “Benjamin” Wright who he mustered into "I" Co. CT 10th Infantry,10/9/1861 and was discharged on 10/17/1864. Datelined, Morris Island SC, July 29, 1863 3PM. In part, “There has been quite brisk firing at the front this afternoon. I think some of our Siege Guns have been playing on the Rebs. They continue to shell us night and day. .. I think one of Col. Leggett’s old shirts put on a stick would make a better officer than Greely… It was dreadful hot lying in the trenches all day. During the night we lay in a Mortar Battery… When they commenced that we had to get out of it. We fell back to the rifle pit in the rear. It was a splendid sight to witness the shells from the Mortars. They looked like a ball of fire. You could see them from the time they left the Mortars until they burst or went down on the fort out of sight. A mortar shell is thrown different from a rifle shot. A rifle shot goes straight ahead, while the shot from a mortar goes way up in the air, progress perhaps half a circle more or less according to the elevation. They can drop them right down anywhere they like. ... During the day the IRONSIDES came up and opened on Fort Wagner…. She did everlastingly throw things at the. She is a splendid vessel. I consider her the best we have got. ... They were to mount either two or three TWO HUNDRED POUNDERS last night. We have a THREE HUNDRED POUNDER PARROT lying down on the beach. That will be mounted about the time the Arago gets down. She is going to bring Ammunition for it. If that Gun don’t make things howl, I don’t know what will. It ought to throw without difficulty five or six miles. They throw regular boot legs from it. ...”
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