Auction Date:2012 Mar 14 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Handwritten newspaper report, by an unknown author, of the fighting at Gettysburg, on three lightly-lined 5 x 8 pages. In part: “2nd day's fight at Gettysburg…Let me give one phase of the fight…some Mass batteries. Capt. Bigelow's, Capt. Phillip's two or three more under Capt. McGilvery of Maine were planted on the extreme left advanced…down the Emmittsburg road with…the first division…of Sickle's Corpls…after 5 a fierce rebel charge drove back the infantry & menaced the batteries. Orders are sent to Bigelow…to hold his position at all hazards…then with depressed guns…[and] with double charges of grape & canister he…shatters but cannot break the advancing line. His grape & canister are exhausted…on they come. He falls back on spherical-case…he holds his position…within six paces of the guns…once more…he blows devoted soldiers from his…muzzles…they spring upon his carriages & shoot down his horses. And then…he seizes the guns by hand &…drags 2 of them off…5 out of 6 are saves…in that half hours' fight lost 33 of its men including every sergeant…the Capt…was wounded…it was the first time it was ever under fire…the rebels now ours on Phillip's battery…it too was forced to drag off the pieces by hand when the horses were shot down. From a new position it opened again…an enfilading fire swept the Rebel line. Sickle's gallant infantry charged the Rebel line…and] we regained the lost ground.” In very good condition, with moderate toning and some light soiling to first page, some scattered light soiling to second and third page. Accompanied by a partially-printed war-dated document signed "Henry Spayd" as color guard 149th Penn. Vol. This document appears to be a clothing return account for Co. C, 149th Penn. (2nd Bucktails) Vol. in which Sgt. Spayd acknowledges the receipt of clothing and accoutrements worn out during the previous year's campaigns. Document is in several pieces.
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