Raynors HCA 2019-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/21/2019
War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by Colonel Robert Taylor, 1st Veteran New York Cavalry Regiment, 4pp. quarto, Cumberland, Maryland, July 11, 1864, and reads in part: “...We are boxing around Virginia and Maryland. First we are ahead then the Rebs and so it goes from one to the other...After leaving home I took the shortest possible route for Martinsburg where I arrived on the 31st day of May. I reported that afternoon and next morning found myself in command of (300) three hundred infantry and about (200) two hundred cavalry and a small train with orders to report to Genl. Hunter with the least possible delay. I hastened on and arrived the evening of the day of the battle of Piedmont ...I was placed in command of the brigade with orders to proceed with it to Waynesboro and ascertain the enemies strength & position which I done with the loss of only one man killed, destroying several bridges and one depot & two warehouses, some movement bring on foot all the time we had neither rest or sleep....After remaining long enough in Stanton ...we took our rather complicated route for Lynchburg...our route being in the direction of Waynesboro and through Tye River Gap...We run into a large body of the enemy which although sent there to surprise us were so completely surprised themselves that the Major in command, doctor, & five other officers and thirty men were captured with the loss of only one man. This little affair caused us to change our course and move farther up and cross the mountains of Myers Gap which is about four miles up and four miles down all of which is so steep that it is impossible to ride a horse either up or down from the top of this mountain....At noon we arrived at the point ordered by Genl. Hunter to communicate with him which we did but receiving no answer we lay until next morning before moving except to capture a wagon train containing the quartermaster stores of Staunton and about $2,000,000 in Confederate money and bonds...” More. Fine condition.
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