(CIVIL WAR ILLINOIS) Bush Elliot N and Henry M Letters of t

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(CIVIL WAR--ILLINOIS.) Bush, Elliot N. and Henry M. Letters of two brothers at Vicksburg and the Red River Campaign. 6 Autograph Letters Signed (4 by Elliot, 2 by Henry) to parents; various sizes, minor wear, separations at folds on one letter. (MRS) Vp, 1862-64

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Captain Elliot Newton Bush (1826-1864) and Lieutenant Henry Martyn Bush (1829-1889) of Belvidere, IL were brothers who served in the 95th Illinois Infantry. The most dramatic of these letters is Elliot's, written the day after the failure of the Red River Campaign in Louisiana: "The Red River ex. is over, the troops all out exc. those whose bones lie in the ground, the victims of the enemy & of disease. It has been a failure, a loss both in men & money & in Union sentiment. . . . [General Banks] was scared and driven out by an inferior force" (23 May 1864). Provenance: sold by Doris Harris Autographs to the consignor, June 1980.