Raynors HCA 2019-05
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/30/2019
War-date Union officer Autograph Letter Signed by Lt. John W. Gilchrist, 52nd Pennsylvania Infantry, 3pp. quarto, Morris Island, South Carolina, January 30, 1865, and reads in part: “...Fish, Gustin , Secor, Hane, Waters, Mahoney and Pierson are all mustered out under the late order from the war dept. Farr, Moses, and Hennessy are talking about it. Ross goes next month. Pierson & Farr got into a circus. Pierson calls Farr a coward & a liar: goes under arrest, ‘slap.’ Hennessey prefers charges against Pierson to take advantage of Order from W.D. and so it goes: it is either ‘cut bait, fish or travel.’ ‘Shitinfingers’ has got ‘evacuation on the brain.’ He thinks the Johnny’s are ‘skedaddling.’ Plenty of work for boat, inf. and mud hens. The Genl sent me down Light House Creek the other night nearly to Secessionville to examine some piles that are across the channel. I was in about three hundred yards of Battery Haskill Cheever and the citizens battery he wants to run up through Light House inlet and get into Charleston before the Navy or Sherman...One of the Reb picket boats came in night before last with eight men in. They report Sumter mined and ready to be blown up and that the dock of Charleston is full of torpedoes ready to put into the water the minute the fleet start going in...They gave Hennessy information how he could capture the two gun battery at Ft. Ripley an I believe just as soon as the tide will admit we are going to try it...Great inquiries are made about the old flag they want to put it on Sumter or the highest dome in Charleston when it is evacuated. Bill Miner even published those resolutions gotten up for you before you left. We never heard whether he di or not...” Fine condition.
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