2024-07 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/13/2024
This 2pp., pencil letter was written by A(bner) N(ewton) Steele (1826-1862) while serving as 1st Lieutenant in Co. G, 11th Alabama Infantry. By January 1862, they were attached to Cadmus Wilcox's Brigade and fought under him at the Battle of Seven Pines, the Battle of Gaines' Mill, and finally at the Battle of Frazier's Farm (or "Glendale") where Abner Steele, leading Co. G, was killed with 48 other men of the 11 Alabama in hand to hand combat with Federals defending two artillery batteries. Incredibly, eight of the ten officers leading companies in the 11th Alabama were killed in the bayonet assault at Frazier's Farm. The letter is accompanied with its original cover.
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