2005-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2005
Autograph Letter Signed, “J. Harper” 4p. quarto, Cincinnati, Ohio, September 12, 1862, marked ‘Copy’ at top, it reads in part: “...The 86th Regt. Ind. Vols, is in the Kentucky hills about three and a half miles from this City, and a more -foresaken place I think is not on earth - ‘than thenm same hills,’ (as Orephus C. Kerr would say)....Every day since the Regt. go there it has been in line of battle and slept on its arms every night; a fight has been and is still immenient...the enemy in plain sight all the time; And mark this, if the Rebels can take this City they will do it, for it is worth more to them at this time than the whole Confederacy. Sunday the city was thought to be safe, but on Monday the enemy turned back, are entrenching themselves at Florence...Every able bodied man in this city is doing military duty and will till the danger is passed or the city taken....If the Rebels attack the fortifications and attempt to take this ‘Queen City of the West,’ then will there be such a scene of blood as earth never before witnessed. Men are here for the express purpose of fighting and the ‘dark and bloody ground,’ will be made a thousand fold more bloody...This is the time for hope to brighten...This war is to destroy Slavery. God and every human sympathy, have so willed it. We have to come up to that...Let us do it now...we must or be destroyed...50,000 ‘Squirell hunters’ are in the ‘Queen City’ with their own guns...God is moving the hearts of the people...” VG.
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