Raynors HCA 2019-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/21/2019
Original Wood framed with period manuscript, 14” x 22” sight, titled “SOLDIERS MEMORIAL, Co. E, 22nd New York Vol. Cav.” The manuscript lists soldiers who served, Officers of the Company, soldiers who died, Histrory of the Company and eight skirmishes. The 22nd, known as the Rochester Cavalry, was organized at Rochester and there mustered into the U. S. service between Dec. 20, 1863, and Feb. 23, 1864, for three years. It lost heavily at Spottsylvania, Cold Harbor, on Wilson's raid to the South Side and Danville railroads, and at the battle of Nineveh. It fought its final engagements at Fort Holly, New Market and Rude's hill, Va. Its casualties included 3 officers and 22 men killed or died of wounds; 1 officer and 178 men died of disease, accidents and all other causes; total, 204.
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