2020-01 Putnal
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/18/2020
A good war-date Confederate soldier's letter, 2pp. 8vo., written by Corp. M. D. Wilson, Co. F, 62nd North Carolina Infantry, "Camp at or near Cumberland Gap," [Tenn.], July 2, [1863], to his "dear sister", in part: "…I have not had a letter from you since I com to the Gap. I want to her[e] from you very bad…there is a grate deal of sickness here. [Pvt.] Elisha Shamwell [Co. F, 62nd North Carolina] is dead. He died the twenty third of June [at Greenville, N. C.] and we have not heard from our sick boys at Greenville except that Mitch Baker has got a furlough and gone home. Our duty is very hard. We go on picket every other day. Our rations is very short. We don't get a nuff flour to make…enough brd and not half enough meat…the Yankees has made another attack in Tennessee. They burnt three railroad bridges and General [?] was looking for them to…come through the gap. We fix[ed] our ground to fit [fight] them…don't be uneasy about me. I will do some way. You must all do the best you can…M. D. Wilson…". Wilson, along with his command, was surrendered enmasse during the "battle" of Cumberland Gap, September 7-9, 1863 after Union General Ambrose Burnside demanded the Confederate forces stationed at the Gap surrender unconditionally. Minor soiling, else VG.
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