Raynors HCA 2020-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/27/2020
War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by Aaron Brown, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry, 3pp. octavo, on patriotic stationery, August 14, 1862, Culpepper, Virginia, and reads in part: "...We had a battle on Saturday but we were not in the fighting part of the field but were close enough to have shell scatter amongst us so that we had to skedaddle. George N. Ide & Herman Saunders were killed & 17 wounded. The rest except 3 of our 43 recruits have died. Thomas Carey, Hutch & Fitzsimmons. Warren Cook is likely to lose his arm, Buck Clark is wounded in the thigh. Jim Hay in the tricker the ball passing out in the abdomen. DW Mack & Sid Allen in the hand with buck shot. Saml. Nuthers, Ley Brook, Bud Rubfales slightly in the face. Chas. Whitney was hit with a spent ball in the bellly about 2 inches from the button. John Coombs is the biggest shirk in the whole company..." Fine condition.
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