Raynors HCA 2020-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/27/2020
War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by Samuel Knepper, 158th Pennsylvania Infantry, 4pp. octavo, on fine patriotic stationery with image of General Burnside, Camp Near Newbern, North Carolina, April 12, 1863, with cover featuring a horseback Genl. Washington, it reads in part: "...Colonel Troxell has kept a memorandum of the trip on the water and I suppose that he will have it published in the Waynesboro paper. We lay from Thursday morning until Monday evening in sight of the rebs blockade. There was 6 gun boats up shelling them in their fortification but could not drive them out, so we retreated Monday evening for Newbern...We started at 2 oclock on Wednesday morning, we went to town and crossed the river and laid there until about 1 oclock in the afternoon until the troops were all over being about 9000 men and 20 pieces of artillery. We started for Cay River to drive back the rebs but they had the advantage of us. We got there the second day about 2 oc and then our artillery opened fire on them but could not do much with them. The rebs had fortifications on the other side of the bridge and they took up the bridge so our men could not get over and couldn't do anything with infantry and could only bring a few pieces of artillery to work on them at a time on account of timber and swamp. There was about 15 of our men wounded and several of them have died and killed 3 horses. The men that was wounded belonged to the 17th Massachusetts Regt..." Fine condition.
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