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Civil War Letters With Battle Content

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:38.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 200.00 USD
Civil War Letters With Battle Content
<B>Excellent Lot of Civil War Letters With Vivid Accounts of the Battle of Fair Oaks.</B></I> Includes two detailed letters from a Union private to his family in Winsted, Connecticut, oddly both dated June 14, 1862, who writes in part: “<I>Well here I am yet, all right & this side up although I am prety sic near used up by the long marches & fighting…I guess I can weather it through unless some stray ball weathers through me…What would you think when talking to a man by your side trying to encourage him to do his duty & telling him the balls would never hit him as long as he stood up & faced them to see his head cut entirely off by a pasing sic 12 pounder & yourself covered with his blood…</B></I>” and many equally colorful descriptions of the battle, with the usual fold creases, else near fine, with an original stamped envelope; a three page letter from a Union soldier, Lewis Stockwell from a camp near Brandy Station, dated April 11, 1864, to Mrs. H. B. Hoxie in Northampton, Massachusetts, in which he writes: “<I>There is a girl to the house, she says she has got two brothers in the rebbel sic army and she wished that she had two more, bully for her; pretty gritty regular woman…</B></I>”, with the usual fold creases, else near fine with original stamped envelope; and a one page handwritten contemporary account of the first “<I>rebel raid into Pennsylvania, September 13, 1862</B></I>”, with fold creases, else very good. <I>Ex. Henry E. Luhrs Collection.</B></I> <BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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