2020-07 2 sessions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/23/2020
War-date Union officer's letter, 1 1/2pp. 4to., written by forty-year-old Captain William B. Kirk, Co. B, 126th Ohio Vols., April 19, 1863, Martinsburg, West Virginia, to his sons, reading, in part: "…mother & I are comfortably situated at Suter's. She got here yesterday by the noon train…Ella also except she is a little cross from her ride…[I] hope I may live to see…the mantle of peace is spread out over these United States and our glorious old flag unfurled to the breeze from every capitol in the Union. Then and not until then will I be willing to lay down my arms & return to my home…we have news last evening that Fairfax Court House is taken by our forces & that the Rebels are about to make a run down this valley…let them come we will give them a warm reception I do assure you…get Minor Hawell to cut that canser out of the mare's nose again…if it is not done she will die & if she dies from the operation let her go. It will not be the first mare that ever died. You can see fifty dead horses here in one hour's ride. I am still Permit officer & will be here in town…Wm. B. Kirk…[mother, Ann, then adds]…I went up to camp yesterday…I got [to] Wheeling at five o'clock…I was glad when I saw your papa on the platform waiting to meet me…Ann…". Also included is a 1/9th plate tintype of a young teenage boy, in formal attire and the original transmittal cover addressed: "Ann Kirk, Flushing, Belmont Co., Ohio." Minor soiling, else VG.
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