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UNION SOLDIER'S LETER ARCHIVE: A great collection of seven war-date letters by Union Pvt. George R. Baldwin, Co. C, 1st Conn. Hvy. Artillery, totaling 30pp., 8vo. (two on patriotic letter sheets), concerning a mutiny in the regiment, the Peninsular Campaign, and the Second Battle of Bun Run, in very small part:"...[Frederic Junction, Md. Aug. 26, 61]...our company is not with the rest of the regiment...four companies of us went to Williamsport on the 4th of July...[we are] about 3 miles from the city to guard some bridges on the Baltimore & Ohio R. R...there is a great many Secessionists at heart here in this region, but they are not the mean kind...our regiment is very poorly officered. One whole company rebelled the other day...and were put under guard and sent to Gen. Bank's headquarters...they only asked for officers who would use them...their present officers did not. Captain Siprell & Lieut. Dickinson were not capable of wheeling a drove of geese to water. Besides they stole their rations, sold them for whiskey and starved the men...the other companies were in the scrape but did not hold out...came very near being a bloody time...when company K mutinied the rest of the companies were ordered to 'make ready' on them only one company (Comp. B) would do it. So there were two companies drawn up against each other...company K...could not be made to obey their officers though they paid all the respect they could to the colonel and regimental staff...our company has no 1st nor 2nd Lieut...we have about 60 men in our company...some are in the hospital and some are rambling about the country but quite a number have left for good...one corporal and 10 men have certainly left for good. One of the men has been to my folks house since he left but they do not know it...Gen. Banks army is now stationed from Harper's Ferry down the Potomac...I visited the camp of the 5th [Conn.] regiment...and seen the Willimantic boys...[Camp Ingalls, Oct. 24, 61]...there has been hard fighting up in Gen. Banks & Stones Divisions within a few days...our men have rather had the worst of it...whiskey is plentier here than in Gen. Banks Division...the name of the fellow who left [deserted]...is Joseph Wheaton of Lebanon...I don't blame him for leaving. I have almost a mind to leave once myself...[Fort Richardson, Dec. 2, 61]...this is the 2nd Thanksgiving I have spent in Dixie land, but one was before it had become a foreign nation. They have been talking about sending our regiment down south on an expedition...we shall not probably stay in our tents a great while longer...we drill 2 1/2 hours a day...if you ever enlist I want you to enlist in this regiment...soldiering is a life calculated to destroy all the finer feelings of a man's nature. Our regiment is in mighty good shape now. We have been reviewed several times lately by members of McClellan's staff and the condition of our guns, knapsacks, and accoutrements is in better shape...than the regulars...[Fort Richardson, Mar. 8, 62]...Gen. McClellan's wife and other distinguished ladies & gentlemen reviewed our regiment yesterday. The general's wife is quite a nice looking old gal. Old Bob got them up a grand supper & they staid with him most all day...[near Yorktown, Apr. 21, 62]...we are now camped on the field where Cornwallis surrendered his sword and where his men grounded their arms. We hope to make Jeff & Co...do the same...the first Conn. Artillery are getting their...mortars batteries in position before the enemies works. We worked all day yesterday making a battery of 6 guns opposite the rebels batteries on Gloucester Point. The battery is to mount 5 one hundred pounder rifled Parrott guns...the rebels are strengthening their works in a very energetic manner...they could have shelled us out while we were erecting the battery...we have got the battery all done but mounting the guns...the mud [is] so deep that it has prevented us mounting them. Our hundred pounders weigh 5 tons a piece. There was a great deal of fighting along the line...the shot and shell from the rebels fell within a few rods of our camp and the boys ran and bring then into camp. Their shells are not very perfect. All of them don't burst...[near Richmond, Va. June 5, 62]...our Colonel complimented our regiment in a special order on our good conduct during the march & fight...three days after the battle Hanover...we now are about 8 miles from the city of Richmond. We are camped in a pine wood, are in Sykes Division, Gen. Porters army corps. There was a heavy battle Saturday...we were 2 or 3 miles from the scene of action...since the battle of Hanover Porters Division becomes naturally a reserve division...heavy firing has been going on all day today in advance, artillery but no musketry...our advance is moving forward shelling the woods as they advance to find where the rebels are. All sorts of reports are afloat concerning the movement of our advance...night before last all the reserve division were called out to listen to a special order from McClellan saying that the impending battle of Richmond was at hand and asking the soldiers...to sustain the reputation they had gained at Yorktown, Williamsburg, Hanover & Fair Oaks in a final attack on the rebel army in front of their capital. This order was received with deafening cheers...we have great faith in McClellan & he has great confidence in his men...[Fort Ward, Oct. 3, 1862]...as I have not heard of your enlisting I concluded that you was...going to keep out of this quarrel...our regiment has returned from the Peninsular. We stored our siege guns in Alexandria and then we were sent to garrison the forts opposite Washington...our company with two others is at this fort...the fort mounts 30 guns. The capital has been considered in danger lately and we sleep beside our guns...we can hear the cannon every day...I am convinced that our men got the worst of it...I never heard such continuous cannonading as we heard last Saturday in the direction of Manassas...If we had 40,000,000 men in the field the rebels would manage to outnumber and whip us...old Stonewall is quite a hero among us. I think he is smarter than all the Union generals together...drilled on the big guns 2 hours...our army is falling back to the same position that we took after the battle of Bull Run over a year ago. The 5th Conn. stopped about a quarter of a mile from our fort...there is only about 250 left. Out of 30 or so that went from Willimantic only one or two are left...I think there is enough of us left to save Washington...how does Dea Crane feel about Alvin's shoulder straps. Alvin wrote me...that he should enlist...that he would acknowledge that he was a coward...". With transmittal envelopes, minor soiling and spotting, else very good. $600-800
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