Raynors HCA 2020-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/27/2020
War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by Leo Schmelzle, NY Vols 4pp. octavo, April 21, 1863, Leonardtown, with cover, and reads in part: "...Yesterday there were six fugitives came in from Richmond that got away through the English consul, they being Englishman and they report very hard times there and that a great many of them would be glad to get into the Union again. Yesterday I was out on a scout with several others the orderly and captain and the horses got a running. The captain's took a stumble and fell heels up, captain and all, which hurt him quite severely but not dangerous...There are aplenty of secesh folks in this town. They poisoned a noble dog that belonged to company B of our squadron and it made the boys so made that they hung the secesh dogs to the trees around the yard and shot every hog that come in the yard all day long....The most that we do is to watch the secesh smugglers and catch them and take their goods from them and put them in prison. But they cannot keep our boys in their prisons. They had some of the Low Boys in it and they made three large holes in the sides and all of them escaped in one night. When the jailer came to feed his chickens in the morning he had none to feed, it made him stare very wildly, I will assure you, for it held Negroes but it would not hold white men..." Fine condition.
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