Raynors HCA 2019-05
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/30/2019
War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by Halsey Bartlett (1821-1864), 6th Connecticut Infantry, KIA 6/17/1864 at Bermuda Hundred, 4pp. quarto, Hilton Head, South Carolina, January 10, 1862, Sherman’s Division Camp Wright, and reads in part: “...Hilton Head is an island situated on the Broad River in the state of South Carolina....Its products are cotton, of which Sea Island cotton is the best in the world, sweet potatoes, oragnes, ground peas (peanuts) corn, sugar cane, and any quantity of Negroes. There is three forts on this island which Fort Walker is the principal one of the account. There is 8 plantations on this island with an average of about sixty slaves to a plantation. Hilton Head island was taken from the secessionists by Norther Troops in the great expedition on Nov. 7, 1861, and the North still holds possession of it. Among the most noted of the troops are the Sixth and Seventh Conn. Vol. which were the first to land on the soil after the Stars and Stripes were planted there....There is about four thousand troops on this island. The harbor is well blockaded and the coast is well fortified...There was a fight in this camp one day this week and two men stabbed, but not dangerous...” Fine condition.
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