2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/20/2024
Union soldier's 2pp. letter, with original cover and written on illustrated letterhead "Great Naval Engagement of Fort Jackson". The writer is Henry H. Fobes who mustered into "K" Co. OH 105th Infantry, 8/21/1862 and was killed on 10/8/1862 at Perryville, KY. Datelined, Louisville, September 26 (62). In part, "We have been expecting a battle here for some time but think now we shall be disappointed as Gen. Bragg is retreating towards Frankfort and I suppose we shall follow. If we get there, I hope we shall burn the city. It is the greatest secesh hole I have seen. ... Last Monday and Tuesday I was sent to the river to cut away the timber and brush that grows on the bank to give the gunboats a better chance. There was 160 men there on Monday and 100 on Tuesday. On Tuesday night the 105th [Ohio] Regiment was out on picket and there was 17 men from Scotts Louisiana Cavalry ... " The letter was written just six weeks after his enlistment and less than two weeks before he was killed in action (8 October) at the Battle of Perryville.
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