Raynors HCA 2018-10
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PECK, John James (1821-1878) offered his services after the eruption of the Civil War, and was appointed as a Brigadier General of Volunteers on August 9, 1861. In the 1862 Peninsular Campaign in Virginia, he led the IV Corps 2nd Division at the Battles of Williamsburg and Fair Oaks and the Siege of Yorktown. On July 25 he was promoted to Major General, US Volunteers (backdated to July 4) and was assigned to command the various Federal troops stationed south of the James River. In the Spring of 1863 Confederate forces under General James Longstreet was detailed to raid the area of Suffolk, and to capture as many supplies and material as he could. His forces laid siege to General Peck’s command in Suffolk, who successfully defended it against two Confederate divisions, and broke the siege on May 4 when a small detachment of Union troops captured a strong Confederate artillery position on Hill’s Point. He sustained a severe wound in the operation, but garnered praise and accolades for his efforts. After a three-month convalescence, he returned in August to command troops in North Carolina, which by that time had become relatively peaceful. He remained there from August 1863 until April 1864, when he took a few months sick leave. In July 1864 he was assigned to command the Department of the East’s Canadian Border, where he was in control of relations with the Canadian provinces. KEYES, Erasmus Darwin (1810-1895) was a businessman, banker, and military general, noted for leading the IV Corps of the Union Army of the Potomac during the first half of the American Civil War. War-date Autograph Letter Signed “Charles Rauset” Capt. 100th Regt New York Vols, 1pp. folio, Harrison Landing, August 4, 1862, and reads “ I visited the pickets 4 times during the day and night...No signs from the enemy. A negro went through the picket line on Saturday evening and went back on Sunda at 2 oclock pm. He had a pass signed by 1st Lieut Orig 1st Pennsylvania Artillery...said Negro received permission to go throug the line on his pass by men from the 56th Regt. N.Y.V. under charge of 1st Lieut Milton from the said Regt. and arrested by Capt. G. Hinson 100th Regt. N.Y.V.”. General Peck then refers it to General Keyes, who writes a lengthy Autograph Endorsement Signed concluding with “The artillery officer has been examined & he ascerts that the negro to whom he gave a pass is one of his employees & that it was not intended to pass him across the picket line. Men on picket have no authority to pass a man with or without a pass...” Fine condition.
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