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CONNECTICUT OFFICER'S PREMONITION OF HIS DEATH AT ANTIETAM:: Intriguing war-date letter 4pp. 8vo., Pleasant Valley, Md., Oct. 411 1862 from 2nd Lieut. Henry Bristol, Co. A, 16th Conn. Vol., a condolence letter on the death of Capt. Manross to his wife. In small part: "...I thought immediately after the battle of writing you but you had many ways of learning the facts concerning your beloved husband's death that I thought perhaps it might be more a grief than a consolation...in the death of your husband there is something peculiarly melancholy. We who enlisted under him had felt he had sort of charm to his existence that whatever might happen to us we should always have the advantage of his acute judgement...but alas the vicissitudes of war have changed all. He the first to fall as if emblematic of the sacrifice we were willing to make...from the time that he left home till his death he maintained that condition of mind so natural to him...never giving way to any expression of disappointment...he appeared more serious than at home which I noticed particularly on the day of the battle when I made any remarks...he generally replied in soberness...I have since thought whether he had not an intuitive feeling that death was awaiting him. Late in the forenoon...we had...one of the greatest exhibitions of artillery practice that was ever the...fortune of a soldier to witness. In this he was deeply interested and watched carefully ever shell and shot from either side. He said to me it was the greatest sight he had ever witnessed. From this time until night we were mostly under the fire of the enemy's artillery...he was leading us on when he was struck on the shoulder by a solid cannon shot which swept him out of my way and which I supposed at the time had ended his life. He faintly said 'my wife' and apparently died...how well befitting...that he should fall [at the] head to the setting sun that when he could no longer wield his sword in his country's defense and...when every thing that he could do for his comrades and country was done his fleeting memory should return to her he loved so well and as he murmured his faint 'my wife' bear his last and greatest testimony to the world...although I supposed him dead. I did not stop to bear his body from the field. When I considered my duty as a soldier and to my comrades and my reputation as a man of courage. I could not do otherwise...you must bear up under your affliction...". With a newspaper biography of Capt. Manross and the announcement that a tree is to be planted in Bristol, Conn.in his honor, as well as sketch showing the fallen man wearing his Civil War uniform. Overall very good to near fine. $500-700
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