Apr 08, 2014 - Sale 2344

Sale 2344 - Lot 70

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CIVIL WAR.) Group of 17 Civil War letters. Various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1862-65
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Don Carlos Buell. Front-line order in a secretarial hand to General Alexander McCook. "Let [Jacob] Ammen go by forced marches immediately. He must if possible reach Mulloys-Mitchellsville tonight. You must get to Tybee Springs. . . . Bragg crossed the Cumberland Sunday and is moving by forced marches on Glasgow." Nashville, TN, 11 September 1862 Henry N. Hand, private in the 48th Indiana Infantry. Group of 4 letters to father William J. Hand of Plymouth, IN: one at enlistment, 2 from Goldsborough IN in April 1865, and one en route home. Describes rejoicing in camp at the fall of Richmond. Vp, 1864-65 L. Poore, of an unknown regiment. Letter to friend Lysander. "I begin to feel very much like fight. I want to see this war progress and see the last Reble get his just deserts, and that's a little hemp well twisted." Camp Butterfield, 2 January 1862 George G. Sinclair, sergeant in the 89th Illinois Infantry. Partial letter to aunt, complaining about the Emancipation Proclamation. "Would rather see Wendal Philips shot today than the worst fire eater of the South. . . Our commanders have all gone to Wash't to find out what we are fighting for, and I hope they will find the truth before enlisting another 600,000." Last 4 pages of a longer letter. Tennessee?, circa early 1863 Lewis C. Spencer, lieutenant in the 3rd New Jersey Infantry. Letter to wife in Plainfield, NJ. Describes difficulty in getting to the front by sea. With envelope franked by regimental officer. Washington, 1 May 1862 Herman J. Trask, private in the 8th Iowa Infantry. Pair of letters to sister Calista. Memphis and Blackwater, TN, 16 June and 25 July 1864 Charles Wilson, private in the 11th Michigan Infantry. Group of 3 letters to sister Emeline Russell and her husband Herman of Coldwater, MI. Kentucky and Tennessee, 18 January, 11 February 1862, and 4 May 1863 James H. Winsor(?), a new recruit in an Illinois or Wisconsin regiment. Letter to mother describing his journey south. Cairo, IL, 15 June 1864 Jim ---, soldier in unknown regiment. Letter to unnamed brother, describing siege of Charleston. Morris Island, SC, 12 July 1864 Unsigned letter from a soldier in the Peninsular Campaign to his brother. Complains bitterly about cruelty of officers and lack of tents. Alexandria, VA, 22 March 1862 Unidentified soldier. Letter to brother Ed. Warrenton, VA, 17 July 1862. with--a small group of unrelated ephemera and philatelic material.