Auction Date:2012 Mar 14 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
War-dated ALS in pencil signed “Benjamin,” 23 pages on six lined adjoining sheets, ranging in size from 5 x 8 to 5.25 x 8.25, dated in installments from December 24, 1862, through January 1, 1863. Benjamin Wright sends a lengthy letter to his wife, Abbie, in part: “There was not twenty letters for the company. Those that came were mailed the 19th, 20th, only two days later than my last. I finished the last just after the battle of Kinston. After we drove the Rebels across the bridge they went just outside of the city on a hill and drew up in line to give us a turn, but they at last decided that discretion was the better part of valor and skedaddled…Yesterday morning a party started to go to Kinston with a flag of truce for the bodies of Capt. Wells, Lieut. Hill & Perkins. It consisted of a company of cavalry, the Maj. of the 24th, and 6 from our Regt. Our Chaplain, Sergt. Long, Mr. Hill, Zachariah Mead, Ike Loyd & one from Co. E. Long and Zac has got back tonight. They were not allowed to go to Kinston. They were allowed to go within about 25 miles to about 15 miles of Kinston. The Chaplain only was allowed to go on. The Rebs promised to render all the assistance they could, and would deliver the bodies at our lines. The soldiers they saw said they were sick and tired of the war. That appears to be the feelings of all their soldiers. If it was not for their officers this war would be closed up very quick.” Scattered light creasing, toning, and soiling, and a few light tears, otherwise fine condition. A complete transcript is available online at www.rrauction.com.
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