2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/20/2024
Confederate soldier 2 page letter legal-sized stationary written by who was mustered into "H" Co. NC 48th Infantry on 8/8/1862. He was POW 10/14/1863 Bristoe Station, VA., confined 10/16/1863 Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC. signed the Oath of Allegiance 3/14/1864 Old Capitol Prison, Washington, DC. Datelined, Near Martens, Va. Sept. the 20th A.D. 1862. In part, "I WAS IN A VERY HARD BATTLE LAST WEDNESDAY OVER IN MARYLAND ABOUT 2 OR 3 MILES FROM THE FORD ACROSS THE POTOMAC AT SHEPHERDSTOWN BUT I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE NAME IS OF THE BATTLE GROUND ... WE MARCHED UP RIGHT IN FRONT OF A RANGE OF CANNONS AND MADE A CHARGE ON THE BATTERY, BUT WHEN WE GOT IN ABOUT A HUNDRED YARDS OF THE BATTERY THE BULLETS SHELLS AND SHOT CAME SO HARD FOR US AND KILLED AND WOUNDED SO MANY OF OUR MEN THAT WE WERE OBLIGED TO RETREAT. ... THERE WERE ABOUT 20 MEN OF OUR COMPANY WOUNDED AND JACKSON KOOTZ WAS KILLED AND KINSEY BRYANT DIED FROM A WOUND IN THE STOMACH ... ON THURSDAY MORNING WE MARCHED OVER A PART OF THE BATTLE GROUND AND THERE I SAW THE HORRORS OF WAR. THE GROUND WAS BLOODY FROM THE DYING AND WOUNDED SOLDIERS ... THERE WERE A GREAT MANY DEAD SOLDIERS A LYING ABOUT, SOME WITH THEIR BRAINS SHOT OUT, I SAW ONE MAN WHO HAD HIS HEAD SHOT OFF, ANOTHER WITH LOWER JAW SHOT OFF AND …AND THE HORRORS OF THE BATTLE FIELD I CANNOT EXPRESS. ..."
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