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Excellent grouping of Union soldier’s letters by Corp. Henry P. Elliott of the 11th New Hampshire Infantry, Co. G. Lot totals 25 letters and over 84pp., covering Elliott’s entire military service from 7 September 1862 to 26 July 1863, shortly before his death on 9 August. During that time he fought at Fredericksburg, Vicksburg and Jackson, Mississippi. The last two letters in the lot are from Elliott's nephew and Captain, informing the family of his death. In small part: ''[Pleasant Valley, 16 October]…we had got to do some fighting…I have seen…Thomas Priest…they had seen some hard fighting. Rob said it looked ofle. He said there was some three hundred laid dead in one pile…if a man gives out on a march there are men to pick them up and carry them to Harpers Ferry…[Falmouth, Va., 24 November]…I have marched about one hundred miles…and are now encamped…opposite the sity of Fredericksburg…we expect to have a hard fight unless they surrender. I have been on picket…we could talk with the rebil. They are peacable…a rebel general and the mayor of the city came over with a flag of truce after we got our guns ready to shell the city…[Camp opposite Fredericksburg, 18 December]…it is through the providence of god that I am once more promited to wright…I have past through one of the hardest battles that has been fought…there was about two hundred of our regiment killed and wounded. Henry Potter has a slite wound in the head. Charles Beerman was wounded in the leg. I can’t tell how bad. We had three killed in our company and 18 wounded…the rebels had earth works thrown up on a high ridge and we could not get to them…we were out on an open field and they cut us like grass before the scythe. Our general says his men wont go into another such place while they are under his command. His name is Ferrero…[Falmouth, 13 January]…I got hurt in my private parts so it troubles me some…[Falmouth, 25 January]…one thing I…know…is that Burnside got stuck in the mud…and I am not sorry for it…he would got whipped for the rebs are fortified in all direction…we have to do the advancing…we might as well give it up now as ever for we shall have to in the end and settle it some other way than fighting…it looks a little tuff to see the nigers riding horseback and we have to plod along in the mud with fifty or sixty pounds on our backs…[Falmouth, 6 February]…Henry Potter is dead…I felt bad it seemed almost like parting with a brother…[ 10 June]…I am now on board a steamer going down the Mississippi to help fight the battle Vicksburg…[Camp Hariman in the rear of Vicksburg, 17 June]…we have been within fore miles of the town. There is a good deal of fighting done every day. Our folks have got the town surrounded and the rebs dug pits and put the women and children into protect them from earshot…Grant gave them a chance to come out but they would not…the country here is a place of desolation. Houses are deserted and nigers are as thick fleas. Our army is getting to be all most a black one and I…don’t like the style. We have not got but one in our regiment but the Western regiments are filled up with them hundreds of women and children…some of them are white with woley heads it looks disgusting to see them mixed up so…[Snyder Bluff, Miss., 23 June]…we are in the midest of an enemy…yesterday morning we had…the heaviest cannonading that I ever heard. It made the ground tremble…[6 July]…we are having rather harde times down hear in Mississippi. Vicksburg is ours and now we are after Old Johnson…[Camp near Jackson, Miss., 15 July]…we have been out scrimishing forty eight ours…they intend to take it by siege and if they do it will save a good many lives…our courage is good and we have got them surrouded…[Jackson, 17 July]…we have taken Jackson and have only one man killed in our regiment and 10 wounded. We were the first that went into the town. There was no one hurt in our company. The rebs left the town last knight…we took quite a lot of prisoners…they say they have fought as long as they want to. we was not…smart enough to catch Old Johnson…it is a forsaken lookin place, houses are burnt and…furniture laying in the streets completely destroyed…[Misdaile, Miss., 26 July]…we have had to march 20 miles a day until the men could not stand it any longer…the citizens here have to live on our army rations furnished by the government and it makes them grone…it is good for them as it is for me…[Letter from Henry’s commander, Capt. George E. Pingree, Reading, Mass., 16 August 1863]…I have very sad news…About 2 o’clk P. M. on the 9th inst just a we run into Memphis, Tenn. Corporal Elliott expired without a groan without a struggle, unconscious…he died of malaria fever brought on by the excessive heat of the climate and the awful hardships and toil of the campaign…all our efforts to save him were unavailing & he now fills a soldier’s grave in Tennessee soil…I considered him to be one of my best men, had promoted him once for good conduct & should have been glad to have promoted him again…” Almost all the letters have their original stamped transmittal covers. Overall in very good condition.
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