2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Autograph Letter Signed, 16th Massachusetts Light Battery, 6p. octavo, Camp Barry, D.C. , August 7, 1864, with cover, and reads in part: “...So far from having been gobbled up byt he Rebs on their last riad I only saw about four of them and those were under guard...We were lying at Ft. Lyon Va, about a mile and a half beyond Alexandria, dismounted and acting as heavy artillery, had been there for six weeks. Eighteen batteries for which they at that time had no use having been dismounted and sent out into the fortifications...the evening of July 10th had doubled our picket guards...when an orderly came riding up to headquarters and presto two dismounted batteries, ours one of them, and a heavy artillery company were ‘frogging it’ for Alexandria...we took cars for Washington...immediately ordered to Ft. Kearney...the Rebels made their heaviest demonstration - about a mile from it but hidden from it by a grove and so fired no shots at this time Sternes was attacked. Ft. DeRussy about midway between Kearny and Sterns, opened on them...and the heavy artillery company which came down with us got the credit of some excellent shots from a hundred pounder Parrott, one shell fired at a wagon train three miles off a scout reporting to have knocked over three wagons...” More. VG.
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