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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2011 Feb 15 @ 17:00UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Lot of 35 Civil War letters from Wilson J. Pickard of the 148th Illinois Infantry, Company K. Pickard's correspondence offers a unique view of the end of the war and the death of President Lincoln. Pickard mustered into service on 11 February 1865 and died on 26 June 1865 of typhoid fever while in the service. During his time in the service, the 148th Illinois Infantry performed guard duty at Tullahoma, Nashville and the Chattanooga Railroad. A 26 February 1865 letter reads in part: ''…we have been one week on the cars we are in the rebels country now and are still going farter tords dixey…'' A 4 March 1865 letter from Palahame, Tennessee reads in part: ''…the rebs are firing on our pickets all knight there was seven rebs brought in last knight…they are a going to bee shot this morning they was thrity buswaskers taken last sundy and six shot…'' An 11 March 1865 letter from Tullahoma, Tennessee reads in part: ''…get all the money you can and youse it if you want to…'' A 12 March 1865 letter, also from Tullahoma, reads in part: ''…one of our boys was poisoned that day and died that knight…'' A 15 March 1865 letter from Tullahoma reads in part: ''…a good many of the of the boys has got the measles some of them…the small pox there is some one buried most evry day and some times two…'' A 17 March 1865 letter reads in part: ''…there is some cases of the small pox I am a little afraid of that…'' A 18 March 1864 [sic] letter reads in part: ''…I et a pie and it had poison in it I was very sick but I am right end up now I like to used me up I paid one dollar for the medison to kill it…'' A 19 March 1965 letter reads in part: ''…There was fireing by the pickets night before last draw out in line of battle but it was a contrived plan among the officers it was done to see how quick they could get the boys out…it scart some of the boys…'' A 20 March 1865 letter, which is actually a poem, reads in part: ''…I left my nations lands and home / To make this country free / I have left my dearest friends at home / And gone to Tennesee…'' A 31 March 1865 letter from Nashville reads in part: ''…last knight I was detailed to go to Nashvill to gard a…train to Tullahoma…'' A 26 March 1865 letter reads in part: ''…there is a good many of the boys sick…William Macantire is ded he was buried yesterday…'' A 28 March 1865 letter reads in part: ''…there has been a fight 18 miles from here there was 6 hundred rebs and only 3 companies of our boys it was 42 misouri our boys was taken prisoners…we herd the canons roaring last knight…'' A 6 April 1865 letter again from Tullahoma reads in part: ''…as I was not gobbled up by the gurrillas I will rite a few lines…we…travled 26 miles put up a Murfressbourough they was celebrating the great victory firing of guns…'' An 11 April 1865 letter reads in part: ''…there is great rejoicing over the surrender of lee and his army…there was thirty six rounds fired for…the great victory…'' A 14 April 1865 letter written from a picket at Tallahoma, Tennessee reads in part: ''…it is a day of rejoysing the flag as to bee raised over fort sumpter it is to bee raised by Anderson he is the one that surrendered…'' A 17 April 1865 letter describes the Army's reaction to Lincoln's death, reading in part: ''…our bloved president was assasnated after four long years (revenge on death)…the south said that they would never come back under Lincoln and I suppose they are satisfied…yesterday we went uout on grand review the whole brigade was there after the review was over there was two men with there heads shaved was brought before the brigade…marched the hole length of the line with the bayonet at there back…they had orta be drummed into hell it was for proposing three cheers for the president death…they are a disgrace to the brigade…there was two citizens that cheered for lincons death…put in the stockade…I think they will bee hanged…'' There are 18 other letters from Pickard that postdate the end of the war. Written in ink, letters run a total of 125pp. Twenty-eight of the letters measure 5'' x 8'', five measure 7.75'' x 9.25'', one measures 4'' x 6'' and one other measures 7.75'' x 9.75''. Lot is accompanied by seven letters from three other soldiers in Pickard's regiment, five of which were written by James P. Swift. Swift wrote to Pickard's family to inform them of his death, saying in part: ''…Wilson departed this life last Eavening…he was taken sick about two weeks ago but no one considered him dangerous until about three days a go when I began to have fears of his recovering. He went down verry fast and died…his fever turned to Typhoyid…'' Also accompanied by 11 covers.
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