Raynors HCA 2019-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/21/2019
War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by Edmund S. Henry, Capt. 127th New York Infantry, WIA at Deveaux’s Neck, South Carolina 12/9/1864, 3pp. quarto, Fort Wagner, September 23, 1864, and reads in part: “...The Rebs shell us pretty lively sometimes, but it is seldom they even wound anybody. We have had very few wounded for a long time, notwithstanding they are bursting shells all around us...I trust you were not surprised at hearing that I was ‘still in the land of the living.’ I hope to remain in it during the balance of this war, and if I don’t come home a Brigadier General, it will be because merit is not rewarded! There’s modesty for you. It is one of the peculiar effects of Army life to make a man modest and retiring....I come near going to ‘Davy Jones’ Locker’ as dear Father used to say, on that expedition to the Rebel Batteries. I was ashore with my company and directly under one of them called ‘Simkins’...The only company of our Regiment that landed and with another Company to back me up, I could have told a different story as the result. The boys of my company got up and presented to me a complimentary letter which on the whole is very satisfactory and consoling to my feelings for being ‘licked’ on that occassion. They are fine crowd and will stick to me now like bricks. I am ready to try it again and God willing, will lick them the next time...” Fine condition.
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