2005-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2005
Autograph Letter Signed, “H.D. Burr” 2nd Connecticut Heavy Artillery, 4p. octavo, On the Weldon Road, March 7, 1865, with cover, it reads in part: “...we are now more to the left on the Weldon road where there has been so much fighting. I was out the other day near the old battlefield here the dead lie unburied as it was done so hastily that the rains have washed away the earth and left here an arm and there a leg exposed. Some were only covered with their blankets, presenting a sickening sight. Such is War...oh how I long to get away from these scenes of sin death and carnage...we cannot take a walk in any of this part of the country, but that the little ‘mounds’ scattered thick along the way, speak to us louder than words even speak of the harvest of death that has been gathered of these fields, at what a cost has this nation been rendered. What an ocean of blood it has taken to wipe out the sin of slavery...” More. VG.
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