Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 383

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) TILGHMAN, B.C., COLONEL 3RD U.S.C.T. Autograph Letter Signed, addressed to Captain Charles F. Smith. Single 4to leaf, written on one side; writing quite faded, but readable. Headquarter, 3rd U.S.C.T Jacksonville, FL NOve. 21, 1864
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"In offering you congratulation on your safe return from your late secret expeditions, I wish to express my appreciation of the gallantry and daring which prompted you to volunteer for the serviced as well as the coolness, vigilance, skill, and hardiness both physical and moral which carried your party safely through such danger and fatigue. To penetrate twice with a small party of footmen thirty miles within enemy lines, through a country filled with his spies, scouts and mounted patrols, to plant your torpedoes [landmines] on his main lines of communication and to bring your men back over the same ground were ventures involving the most extreme risks . . . I have the great pleasure in assuring you that your brother officers both of the Regiment and of the Brigade do full justice to your merits and feel proud to call you their comrade."