2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Autograph Letter Signed by Wesley H. Botsford, 5th Connecticut Infantry, who was taken POW at Cedar Mountain, Virginia 8/9/1862, 4p. octavo, “Fifth Regt. Conn. Vols., Near Goldsboro, N.C., April 3, 1865, and reads in part: “...We arrived at Goldsboro on the 25th of March finding it in possession of Gen. Scofield who had moved up from Newbern to open communications for us, and here we commenced to live upon Uncle Samuels rations again not having been much of a burden upon him for the past two months, and I can’t but acknowledge that our trip was rather a pleasant one...We are greatly encouraged here at the bright prospect or of the early termination of the war. Rumours reach us of Lees evacuating R[ichmond] & trouble in the rebel Senate and all this tends to make us hopeful...” Fine.
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