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R.B. Ayres.

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R.B. Ayres.
Of N.Y. Union Brig. Gen., promoted for his performance at Gettysburg's Peach Orchard. "Baldy" Smith's Chief of Artillery at Seven Days and Antietam; led at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, Five Forks, and Weldon Railroad; wounded at Petersburg. Asked after the war if any of the regular troops he had commanded were still serving, Ayres replied, "I had a division of regulars once. I buried half of them at Gettysburg and the other half in the Wilderness...." Bold early signature, with "Lieut. Col. 3rd Artillery" in his hand. Very fine.