Raynors HCA 2018-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/21/2018
Unusual war-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by Gabriel Strang, 1st Massachusetts Cavalry, KIA Battle of High Bridge, Virginia, April 6, 1865, 1pp. on muster roll, and reads in part: “...Was down to Dutch Gap last Sunday to take a ride and it is a sight worth seeing....They fired 11 shell in the gap while I and my chum was there. We hitched our horses behind the earthworks for protection and went into the Gap and every shell that came we could hear it coming so to give us time to cover ourselves. The shell would burst 20 or 30 feet over our heads. O Massa, how de durt would fly....You wanted to know what a bomb proof was. They are built when the men are under heavy fire in the ground in banks to protect the shell from hurting them. We are not in any Corps now. We are at the Headquarters of the Army of the James. It was General Butler but now General Ord. We got 2 companies at the headquarters of the 25th and two more at the 24th, 3 here and one Yorktown, 2 in Florida, 2 at Hilton Head...” Fine condition.
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