NOT SOLD (BIDDING OVER)
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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2011 Dec 06 @ 17:00UTC-7 : PDT/MST
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Nine Civil War letters by twice-WIA Captain Aden Lippincott of the hard-fighting 48th New York Infantry. Totaling 35pp., letters read in small part, ''Camp Perry, Aug. 14, 1862...Night before last two men...gave themselves up to one of our gun boats they are both Northerners pressed into the rebel service...they report thirty thousand troops around the city. Mostly boys & old men miserably equiped and clothed...Several contrabands have arrived here from the interior with their limbs terribly torn & lassserated...by the sharp teeth of their masters blood hounds, I understand the one or two of them have been apprehended...'' Letter from McDougall Hospital dated 31 July 1863, ''...my wound has been doing as well as could be desired. I think the small bone of my arm at the shoulder is somewhat splintered...I have been unable to learn the fate of many of the boys...Stacy Duffle, wounded...in right knee- leg since been amputated...There was...many missing either killed or badly wounded and taken prisoner...'' Letter dated 6 September 1864, ''...I joined the regt a week ago to day. this is my fourth days duty in the trenches - we have 48 hours in the front - and 48 in rear...There was some very heavy artillery firing along the whole line last night between 10 PM & 1 Am this morning...'' Letter dated 27 September 1864, ''...there never was more deserters from the rebel army than at the present time - they all tell the same tale of want suffering and misery they have lost all hope in their cause and are now fighting out of shere desperation...'' Letter datelined U.S. General Hospital, 27 January 1865 reads, ''...have been very devoted to nursing my [wound] it does not seem to improve much and is quite painful...'' All letters, written in both pen and pencil, are in very good condition.
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11901 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles, California, 90025, United States
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