2024-07 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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The 2-page Union soldier's letter was written by Samuel Frank who enlisted on 11/14/1861 into "B" Co. MO 18th Infantry. The regiment formed early in the war and one that took part in most of the important engagements in the western theatre. It lost heavily at Shiloh. During the first two months of 1864m it was mounted and employed in scouting the country about Florence, Alabama. It then joined Gen. Sherman's army and was assigned to the 17th Corps during the Atlanta Campaign and the March to the Sea. They then marched with Sherman to Raleigh, North Carolina, where this letter was written in April 1865 on the evening before Gen. Sherman reviewed his army in the streets of Raleigh.
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