Oct 10, 2002 - Sale 1946

Sale 1946 - Lot 53

Price Realized: $ 288
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
DESCRIBING SHERMAN'S MARCH (CIVIL WAR.) Hough, John. Autograph Letter Signed, from a Sergeant in the 29th Pennsylvania, describing the march to Atlanta. 4 pages, folded 8vo sheet; with the original envelope. "In the Field, near the Chattahoochie river", 7 July 1864

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" . . . the rebels have left Marietta and retreated across it and some remain on this side. We are now about 7 miles from Atlanta. We can clime a large tree close by and see the spires in Atlanta quite plain. On the rout from Marietta the rebels have lost about eleven thousand men in prisiners . . ."<