2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
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Federal soldier's letter written by James S, Gray, District of Columbia Cavalry, to his Parents, Brothers and Sisters, 4pp., dateline Camp at Bermuda Hundred (VA), May 24, 1864, VG. In part, "We expect to get our horses before we leave here. We are within 8 miles of Fort Darling and 18 miles of Richmond. ... Last night they was a fighting all night out about four miles from us. We could hear the musketry plain and the artillery that roared by spells all night. ... Today the story that Old Cutler attacked the Rebels in their rifle pits and that he could not drive them out, we lost 8 men killed and 14 wounded. ... Company F got as much tobacco as they wanted ... The old companies was out on a seven days raid. They tore up railroad tracks and burnt bridges and storehouses and had skirmishes with the Rebels every day, and they run down their horses and captured others from the Rebels, and some came in on mules and some on horses. ... The Rebs hate us like devils, for we can play the devil on them with our fifteen shooters. ... Our boys rose up and poured into them so fast that they was glad to turn and run as fast as their horses could carry them. ... Jas. S. Gray." Comes with original cover lacking stamp. The Bermuda Hundred campaign was a series of battles fought at the town of Bermuda Hundred, outside Richmond, Virginia, during May 1864 in the American Civil War. Union Maj. Gen. Benjamin Butler, commanding the Army of the James, threatened Richmond from the east but was stopped by forces under Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard.
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