2023-03 HCA Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/7/2023
Printed business card, CDV size, for JOHN F. CHASE with an illustration showing his war wounds and amputation. the card advises "Received 48 wounds at the battle of Gettysburg, July 3d 1863, and still lives at South Windsor Maine." In 1866, Chase wrote about his service, his wounding, and his recovery. Submitting to a writing contest for veterans, what his account lacks in correct spelling it makes up for in spirit. He summarized his Gettysburg injury, stating: "I lost my right arm near the shoulder, and left eye, and have forty other scars upon my breast and shoulder caused by pieces of fragments of a Spherical case shot, at the battle of Gettersburg July the second 1863." Humbly, he closed with the note "My eye sight is rather poor that is the reason why I do not wright more or better."
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