2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Fine post-war memoir of Sgt. Major George W. Nash of the 1st Mich. Light Artillery, 12pp. 4to., Minneapolis, Jan. 3, 1911 in pencil to his comrade in the 50th Ohio, Sultana survivor Pvt. Erastus Winters who had served in the same area. In small part: " ... Do you remember of capturing a lone guerilla ... and bringing him into camp and turning him over to the capain of the Bat'y with instructions to take him to headquarters, dead or alive? .. he refused to surrender until you succeeded in setting fire to the house. The Captain turned him over to me with instructions to select my own escort and deliver the body. I put him in the ambulance with the driver, selected four comrades, dead shots with the rifle ... I told the boys in front to ride some distance ahead and those in the rear to fall back and give the prisoner a chance to escape. He would not try. So we had to deliver him alive ... I remember getting afew shots at Morgan's rear as they skedaddled after burning the bridge at Green River ... " He describes a Gen. Manson's rash attack on the forces ofE. Kirby Smith and the ensuing rout, his capture, his claim to having fired the "first shot into Atlanta", service before Franklin, and much more. Very good.
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