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JOSEPH B. AND MCLAUGLEN CARR: A highly unusual pair of two war date letters written on the same 4to. sheet of paper dated Jan. 29, 1863 and Feb. 2, 1863. In the earlier letter Captain James Carr, the author of both, while in command of the 2nd New Hampshire, requests a furlough. Endorsed on the docket by Generals JOSEPH B. CARR and NAPOLEON MCLAUGHLIN. For the first two years of the war the 2nd New Hampshire, a crack unit, had been in almost continual combat, participating in the battles of Bull Run, Fair Oaks, the Seven Days, Second Bull Run, and Fredericksburg. Needless to say, it had suffered great losses, particularly among the officers, and Captain Carr, though only a captain, was the highest-ranking officer in the unit. In the first of the pair of letters, 1p. 4to. January 29, 1863, Carr petitions his superiors for a furlough stating that;" ...Having been continually on duty with my regiment for seventeen months, my family and business are suffering very much...". NAPOLEON B. MCLAUGHLIN, as the Colonel Commanding the Brigade, approves the request, but General JOSEPH B. CARR, the Division Commander, refuses to grant the leave on the grounds that; "Captain Carr is in Command of the regiment". Evidently Captain Carr's relatives had been complaining of his not coming home, so Carr wrote a second letter to his family on the verso of his rejected request for a leave in order to prove that he had given it his best try! This second, 3 page letter of Captain Carr reads in part:" Headquarters 2nd. Regt. N.H.V., Monday Evening, Feb. 2, 1863 ...I am once more disappointed and ...probably shall not be able to get a leave this winter ... You will see by the endorsements the reason why I did not get mine granted this time, because: ' I am in command of the Regiment ' ... I have sent in most every request twice or some three times ... I do not suppose they will give me a Col's berth ...but unless they give me a Lt. Col's I will resign ...if I live so long...I am going to study, and put myself up so that I can command the regiment in good shape under whatever circumstances I am called upon to do so...". Happily, Carr would eventually get promoted to Lt. Colonel, and a few weeks after this letter was written the entire unit was sent for two months to Concord, New Hampshire. It would return in time to be heavily engaged at the Peach Orchard at Gettysburg, where an astonishing 21 of its 24 officers, including Carr, were either killed or wounded. Minor soiling, General's Carr & McLaughlin's signatures are especially clean and bold, very good condition. $300-400
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