2009-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/31/2009
An interesting collection related to the military service of Lt. Isaac T. Biles, Co. K, 28th North Carolina Infantry. At Gettysburg, the 28th North Carolina participated in Pickett's Charge. During the engagement, the regiment along with Lane's brigade advanced within a few yards of the Angle, but was decimated by both heavy artillery and musket fire and forced to withdraw. Biles' regiment suffered over forty-percent casualties at that battle. This archive includes four items relating to Biles being wounded at Gettysburg. War-date 2pp. folio, manuscript document signed by over thirty members of Company K and field staff of the 28th North Carolina. [Albemarle, NC]: 15 March 1864 being a petition signed by Lt. E. Hurley of Co, E., 28th NC Infantry asking that Lt. Biles be assigned to light duty on account of his disability caused by a wound suffered in the foot at the Battle of Gettysburg. "…He was one of the invincibles who marched all the way to Gettysburg and nobly did he acquit himself on that eventful day. Here he received a severe and lasting wound"…condition, weak at folds…PLUS; war-date Confederate officer's letter, 2pp. 8vo., written in ink by James M. Crowell [KIA Petersburg, June 24, 1864] "Camp of the 28th N.C.T., A.N.V., March 17, 1864" to Biles announcing the completion of the aforementioned petition, in part: "…I have gotten up a petition for you and have got all the officers present in camp to sign it. Dr. Gibbons has wrote a certificate on it…Col. Lowe is sick. He signed it but through a mistake after night [fall] Lt. Milt Lowe put his name on the Cols. The company is well and hearty"…PLUS; a 1p. 12mo., manuscript document, "Camp Holmes, June 12, 1864" recommending Biles for an assignment with the heavy artillery "because of injuring to foot from gun shot wound rec'd in battle."…PLUS; 1p. 8vo., manuscript document, examining officer Lt. B. G. Clone, E. O. Stanley Co., N. C., Jan. 23, 1865, reading, in part: "…should J. T. Biles of the Invalid Corps…be assigned to conscript duty & sent to me, as he is well acquainted with the country & could do efficient service in arresting deserters…". Isaac Biles enlisted on Sept. 7, 1861 and served throughout the war in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, was WIA at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg and resigned by December 1863. Afterwards he serviced in the South Invalid Corps. VG. (4 war-date letters and documents)
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