July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
War-date Union officer’s Autograph Letter Signed by Capt. Henry A Wiley, Company B, 104th New York Infantry, 2pp. folio, pencil, Near Belle Plain, Virginia, March 27, 1863, and reads in part: “...Our regiment has consolidated with the 97 New York on the following terms. The 97 are to retain the number & the Col. We to have the Lt. Col. & Maj. They to have the Adj. QM and one Asst. Surgeon & chaplain. We to have the Surgeon & one of the Asst. Surgeons. The 97 have two captains that rank our senior who is Capt. Selleck. I am next to Gault...The rest of the officers is to be mustered out...The consolidation was and is the darkest day that this Regiment ever saw. Yet what else could we do, we were being much reduced and run down and would have soon been consolidated under the conscription act of Senator Wilson...” About very good condition.
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