July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
War-date Union soldier’s Autograph Letter Signed by William R. Acker, 1st New Jersey Cavalry, 3pp. octavo, Camp near Bailey’s Crossroads, September 10, 1862, with patriotic cover franked by Major Henry O. Halsted, 1st New Jersey Cavalry, and bearing a “DUE 3”, it reads in part: “...we have had some very hard fighting since I heard from you ...we are a laying in camp now a doing picket duty. Well I can tell you it is an awful sight to see a battle field to hear the report of the cannon and hear the screaming of the bomb shell and the sharp crack of the musket and to see our brave soldiers fall and to see how quick the ranks is close up. When we was in the fight at Brandy Station I had my horse shot from under me and I am very near being taken a prisoner but as good luck would have it there was a piece of wood and I ran and got in that and they was write at my heals and halting me and firing at me but I escaped without a wound...” Fine condition.
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