Raynors HCA 2020-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/27/2020
War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed, 4pp. octavo, on pale green patriotic stationery, Daufuski Island, South Carolina, May 16, 1862, and reads in part: "...we were all in a heap making preparations to move, last Friday, the steamer Mattano went up to Savannah with a flag of truce, we could not learn what it was for. The Rebel gunboat, met her at St. Augustine creek. She went up again of Saturday, she brought us the news of the capture of Fort Macon by Burnside, and also New Orleans was held by our troops. On Wednesday morning an eight oared boat of the rebels came down with a flag of truce bearing sealed dispatches for Gen. Hunter. What the nature of these are, we do not know but we suppose that Gen. Hunter has demanded the surrender of the city of Savannah. We had removed all of our guns, and put up quakers in their place. Quakers are logs hewed round, painted black, stuck upon a barrel with the end slight elevated, they look very much like cannon at a distance. One of our row boats went up to meet her, she drifted down within 60 yards of our battery (that was Lieut Tisdale was afraid they would discover that our guns were gone. So he told Capt. Gregory of the Gun boat Western World who had just left his vessel to order them back to Augustine creek. They had a splendid rebel flag in their boat. The Rebel officers in the boat were Major Anderson and Lieut Sidney Johnson. Wm. Sabin that used to work for Keach, has been transferred from the 2nd R.I. Battery and is now acting Lieutenant in our company, we bad adieu to Bird Island night before last. All the company had left in the afternoon but a squad of 15 men....I heard yesterday that Co. E, F, G were going to take charge of Fort Macon, North Carolina..." Fine condition.
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