2020-07 2 sessions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/23/2020
War-date letter, 4pp. 8vo., written, on official "U. S. Christian Commission" stationery, by U.S. Christian Commission Agent William Van Wagenen, "Washington, D. C , May 26, 1864," to his sister, reads, in part: "…I have been kept very busy at the hospital-dressing wounds-feeding-writing letters etc. for the soldiers. Yesterday the orders came for evacuating Fredericksburg…the wounded for two days…had been brought away in transports & by railroad…they cleaned out my hospital…my boys…all came safe although several are dying…the wounded were taken two miles to Falmouth Station in ambulances & then took platform cars to Acquia Creek…there were 20 deaths in my hospital while I was there…Fredericksburg is a pretty well used up place. Almost all the houses and every church have holes in them, the results of Burnside's shells. I visited the battle ground & dug a bullet out of a tree…I enclose a 50 cent Confederate bill given me by a Rebel prisoner-one of my wounded men. He was a first-rate fellow…Willie." Overall VG.
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