2024-07 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/13/2024
A great war-date post battle of Antietam Union hospital related letter, 3pp. 8vo., written on "My Youngest Son. Gen. McClellan" patriotic stationery with pro-McClellan poem, at right, reading: "The Goddess of fair Freedom cries. The Union ne'er can be undone. While she has brave McClellan, Her youngest chief and son" by a certain, David B. Patterson, Chester, Penn., Sunday Oct. 5, 1862, to his "Dear mother," reading, in small part: "- sister Eliza was down to see me - that great flood in Philadelphia was close to their house and gave them great fright. She told me - that that man who was a nurse in that hospital - that showed you through was very sick and they did not expect him to live. She also said that she was at the hospital again - that man that had a piece of bone come out of his leg showed her another large piece that come out. She said you would know whom she meant - last Friday there was a large number of wounded came here from Sharpsburg and 50 or 60 rebels among them. That young man by the name of Sharpe [possibly Pvt. Leonard Sharp 38th Penn. Vols.] (whose mother came from Pittsburgh to see him) has got so now he can walk without crutches or a cane. I think he will have to go back to his regiment - P. S. I received a letter from Alfred Drows last Wednesday. Yesterday the Surgeon General (Hammond) inspected their hospital. He is about as large a man as his brother, the chaplain. This hospital contains altogether 1025 men - David B. Patterson." Overall near fine.
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