2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/28/2022
Federal soldier's letter, 4pp., datelined Catlett's Station, Va., July 27-29, 1863, written by Pvt. Harlan P. Martin, Co. E, 123rd New York Vols. writes his mother, in pencil. In part:"...we will draw some clothes before we leave here. We need them bad... as we are mostly ragged. They took all that were sick and worn out so they could not march to the cars... Dennis Baker got here this morning from the hospital. He said that Dan and Dave Baker were drafted. We could hear cannonading this morning in the direction of Culpeper... we will have a fight again in a few days... I wrote you last at Sandy Hook, Md. We have been on the go ever since marching day and night... the weather is very hot indeed and we suffer more than you can think of heat and thirst... it was 6 weeks yesterday morning since we started from Stafford and we have had an awful hard time of it since. We left Sandy Hook and went to Snicker's Gap from there to Upperville, Piedmont and Manassas Gap and from there White Plains and then to here... we have had no fighting yet. I have worn the clothes I have on since we left Stafford and we are all dirty and lousy as can be... I suppose they have drafted up there before this time. There has [been] some officers gone to get some conscripts to fill this regiment with... " The original stamped transmittal cover is included.
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