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 patriotic George Washington stationery, penned from the Post Hospital in Charleston, Virginia, May 28, [1862] and reads in part: "...I suppose you have not heard about our boys having a fight at Lewisburgh. They made the rebels skedaddle in a hurry. They killed over 100 and wounded a good many more. There was about 3 thousand rebels and two regiments of our men. There was 13 killed in our two regiments. The 36th and 44th. Our wounded are in the hospital here at Charleston. Two out of my company - Jerry Louthia and Hugh Conely, but not dangerous. There was one killed in our Comp. Henry Graves and Wm. Gilmore and Charles Love taken prisoners out of our boys..." Fine condition. The Battle of Lewisburg lasted twenty-seven minutes, with the Confederate casualties greatly outnumbering their rivals. Eighty Confederate lay dead, one hundred were wounded, and an additional one hundred fifty-seven were taken prisoner. Colonel Crook recovered over three hundred small arms, twenty-five horses, and four artillery pieces, including an old 12-pounder cannon that was taken from the British at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. In comparison, the Union only suffered thirteen dead, fifty-three wounded, and had seven taken prisoner.
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