2023-08 Raynors HCA Live
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Union officer's letter written by "A(rad) H. Linscott, who enlisted on 8/29/1862 as a Private, 8/29/1862 he mustered into "G" Co. ME 20th Infantry promoted 1st Lieut 4/17/1863 (As of Co. I), was wounded 7/3/1863 Gettysburg, PA, and died of the wounds 7/27/1863. The neatly written 2pp., letter is datelined Jefferson Maine, July 19, 1863. In large part, In accordance to my orders ... wounded through one hip at the late battle at Gettysburg necessitating a 'leave of absence' for thirty days ... my leave was assigned by surgeon in charge of hospital ... and by Gen. Schenck ... Most Obt. Servant, A.H. Linscoy, 1st LT. Co. I, 20th ME. Vols" Almost fifty years later, visiting the battlefield in preparation for the 1913 celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the battle, Chamberlain penned these words: "I went -- it is not long ago -- to stand again upon that crest whose one day's crown of fire has passed into the blazoned coronet of fame; to look again upon the rocks whereon were laid as on the altar the lives of [colonels] Vincent and O'Rorke... And farther on where my own young heroes mounted to fall no more -- Billings, the valor of whose onward-looking eyes not death itself could quench; Kendall, almost maiden-sweet and fair, yet heeding not the bolts that dashed his life-blood on the rocks, Estes and Steele, and Noyes and Buck, lifted high above self...and far up the rugged sides of Great Round Top, swept in darkness...where the impetuous Linscott halted at last before the morning star. I sat there alone on the storied crest, till the sun went down as it did before over the misty hills, and the darkness crept up the slopes, till from all earthly sight I was buried as with those before. But oh, what radiant companionship rose around, what steadfast ranks of power, what bearing of heroic souls. Oh, the glory that beamed through those days and nights. Nobody will ever know it here!... The proud young valor that rose above the mortal, and then at last was mortal after all....."
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