2005-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2005
Autograph Letter Signed, F.C. Neal, Co. "F"22nd Connecticut Infantry, 4pp. 8vo., pencil, May 12, 1863, West Point, Virginia, pertaining to action at Suffolk against Longstreet. In part: "...We have been busy throwing up rifle pits ever since we left Arlington Heights. I suppose you have seen the recount that we had at Suffolk...I say our Regt. was not in the hottest of it but...we were where the bullets and shell flew like hailstone, but that did not scare us a bit, it only made us so much fiercer and mad to see the bugers a firing at us all of the time, and we could not get a chance at them on account of orders, but we stood under fire all day as a reserve and a pretty close reserve too....we had to march out into an open field, but it went to long before we drove them out of their hiding place and took possession of the woods ourselves. And you had ought to have seen them skedaddle. Then, you know they won't fight unless they get hid behind something to hide themselves with. But, we startled them out, and double quick too. Hooker has rather of a hard fight and recrossed the back to Falmouth and lost a great many men,...I hear this morning that he has started again and is doing a big thing, buly for him if he is after the fight at Suffolk....we are within 30 miles of Richmond to cut off the retreat if Hooker gets them started...If he does, the Rebs have no other way to get to Richmond, only to come through where we are..." Mail folds, else VG.
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