Raynors HCA 2018-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/21/2018
War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed “Boardman” 4pp. octavo, Fayetteville, Arkansas, April 16, 1864, and reads in part: “...We left Springfield the next morning - or rather at noon the next day - with an ambulance, 4 horses, & 15 men for an escort...These men, with us, 50 armed men which is too much for any gang of bushwhackers to attack. ...The road we traveled passed directly through the battlefield of Pea Ridge - a warm time they must have had at that battle & there was evidently a great difference in arms or ammunition in favor of our folks. We also passed the battlefield of Wilson Creek where Gen. Lyon was killed. I saw a pile of stones that was said to be on the spot where the Gen. fell. I had not time to go over the fields or was it safe for me to have gone away from the company at Pea Ridge....Two men were in our tent the other day who had lived on or near Pea Ridge & had been hunted & robbed by their neighbors. One said they put a rope round his neck & stretched him up until - as he expressed it - was dead. They laid out in the bushes nights while they tried to stay at home....” Fine condition.
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