Raynors HCA 2019-01
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War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by Joseph Baker, Co. B 15th New Jersey Infantry, KIA 5/3/1863 at Salem Heights, Va., 4pp. octavo, Camp near Fredericksburg, December 14, 1862, and reads in part: “...At 2 o’clock p.m. our company was into it. The rebels were in a trench and we could have no effect on them for they would fire at us and then crawl down and load and we were out on open fire. Soon up came the 4th N.J. Regt and then we charged on them and drove them out of the trench. They soon made a stand and the 4th Regt. formed into a line of battle & we to our company & then it commenced. It lasted about two hours. The firing was kept up by our pickets until 8 o’clock & in fact, they were firing all night...I will give you the names of those wounded in our company. Ord. Sargt. Geo. Martin shot in the head, Simon S. Van Ness in the knee, Dick Bulgin shot in the hip, Len Cooper in the leg near the hip, John Thompson shot in left arm, Zachariah Seals shot in the jaw, Jim Timmins in the hand, John P. Brink in the hand, Jim Egbert wounded in the leg, Wm. Broadwell in the left shoulder. Missing Ed Albertson, Henry Cole, David L. Hayes, and one man I believe. ‘I’ Company suffered bad but they fought well...Our Major, Major Brown was wounded in the leg and our Sargt. Major killed. Capt Slater was shot in the knee and had to have his knee amputated...Our troops are in possession of Fredericksburg...The rebels fight like bulldogs...” Fine condition.
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