2005-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2005
A good war-date Union soldier's, 3 1/2pp. 4to., letter written in ink by Pvt. Philip A. Warner, Co. K, 3rd New Hampshire Vols., Morris Island, [Charleston Harbor, S.C.], Nov. 26, 1863 to his father concerning the bombardment of Fort Sumter in late 1863, reading, in part: "… a forward movement is to be made soon…order[s]…has arrived from the War Department at Washington…all that they have been waiting for is some new Iron Clads…one or two of them have arrived already…the movement will [be] soon…Sumter can be taken at any time when the Gov't. chooses…our batteries have stove it to pieces…they cannot do no more good. A party from my Regt went out the other night in small boats and [got] as near as they could…there was about two hundred in the fort…we think a great deal of Gen'l. Gilmore. He is the right man in the right place…". Warner served throughout the remainder of the war and rose to the rank of corporal before being discharged in July 1865. Included is the original transmittal envelope missing its stamp. Light soiling, else very good.
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