Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 124

Price Realized: $ 562
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CIVIL WAR--ILLINOIS.) Ash, David L. Lieutenant's letter on a hand-drawn patriotic letter sheet. Autograph Letter Signed to "Dear girl." 6 pages, 8 x 5 inches, on 2 sheets; illustrated with a hand-drawn eagle with shield, flags, and arrows, with additional coloring in red, titled "37th Ills. Vols." Springfield, MO, 1 August 1862
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David L. Ash was a lieutenant in the 37th Illinois Infantry, which skirmished with Quantrill's Raiders and other partisans in southwestern Missouri. This letter describes a recent scouting expedition after partisans who "skedaddled back into the mountains." It is mainly of interest for Ash's unusual hand-drawn letter sheet. Ash is listed in Wolf's "The American Jew as Patriot, Soldier and Citizen," page 136.