2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Union soldier’s 2pp letter written to his Cousin John B. R. Hutchings by George H. Hutchings, a Southern sympathizer. Datelined: Volney, Logan County (KY), July 5, 1862, in part “... the very unsettled State of the Country. I can not tell how we will come out. We had a rumor of a great battle of six days near Richmond Virginia in which the Federals have met with a slight repulse from overwhelming numbers and the loss has been great on both sides. I think there is but little chance for the South to succeed in the contest unless foreign powers intervene, which I hardly think they will. ... I heard from Missouri a few days ago ... pretty hard times from the war. Gibbon said he lost about three thousand dollars worth of property by the war. Edmund joined Price’s army early last spring and is in the South now ....” The Seven Days Battles were a series of seven battles over seven days from June 25 to July 1, 1862, near Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. Confederate General Robert E. Lee drove the invading Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, away from Richmond and into a retreat down the Virginia Peninsula.
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