2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
War-date Union soldiers Autograph Letter Signed, “H.M. Gillett” 6th New York Heavy Artillery, KIA at Cedar Creek, Virginia on October 19, 1864, 2p. octavo, on fine Charles Magnus hand-colored lettersheet, depciting Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with ballade of ‘Columbia”, the letter dated October 4, 1864, reads in part: “...it is rather lonesome times here today it is the stillest on the line it has been here in some time. The troops has all left here only the first and second division of the second corps. The troops has moved out on both flanks so there is not much fighting here in our front, but there has been dreadful hard fighting on the left of our line but with what result I have not been able to learn, only I know our line has been advanced five miles, so that General Mead has moved Army Headquarters some seven or eight miles. Army headquarters is now on the Weldon Railroad where Warrens headquarters was before he made the advance, but what has been done on the right or on the north side of the James remains to learn...with respect forever George B. McClellan...” VG.
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