2022-07 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/15/2022
A good Federal soldier’s letter written by Sgt William J. Likely who enlisted 8/8/1862 in Co. A. Wisconsin 33rd Infantry. The 4pp. letter is datelined Camp of the 33rd WI Vol, Vicksburg Miss. August 8, 1863. In part, “I was in the hills in rear of the city when they stuck up the White Flag. It was about 9 o’clock the fourth of July and it was a welcome sight to us poor soldiers ... The next day after the surrender we marched to Big Black River in search of Johnston. ... We started back to Vicksburg which .. we reached the 23rd of July ... We are about a mile fromthe City. ... Some fortifications are two miles from the City. ... If we had not got in the rear and cut off their communications, we would never have taken the place. It was reported that they had no ammunition. They had more than we had, but it was their provisions that run out. They were living on mules when we took possession. ... So you think there will be war North as well as South. I don’t think those Northern Copperheads will do much. If they do, they should be hung, every man of them. ...”
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