July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Pair of war-date items pertaining to the Ulrich brothers, who served the state of Pennsylvania during the war, includes: Eagle discharge, for Lot Ulrich, a “Private of Captain Byrons Company (G) 147th Regiment of PA.V.I.” who was discharged “by reason of Telegraph Orders from the War Department Dated May 3, 1865” 1p. quarto, May 23, 1865, Cincinnati, Ohio. Authorized by Major Walter B. Scates (1808-1886) who was later brevetted brigadier general. Fine condition...plus; War-date Union soldier Autograph Letter Signed by Antes Ulrich, 4pp. octavo, August 13, 1864, Camp near Atlanta, and reads in part: “...here is a bad place for sick men, most of them die if they are pretty sick...we are all camped right behind our breastwork and the shells are flying day and night our 20th Corps is in the center and our skirmish line is within 75 yards of the rebel breast work we hold them in their breast work over a week already. We are seiging the city, we have from a ten lb gun to 120lb guns...I dont think we will get free this fall as the government is keeping the old soldiers to the very last day...these damn dictators will never get me again and if the rebels go through the whole North, Lot, my politics I will never change as long as I live. Atlanta is not ours yet, and the Lord knows when we will get it. The Rebels have the best kind of breast works with ten very large and strong forts it will cost yet thousands of lives to get it. The Rebel locomotive whistle we here everyday...we are about 2-1/2 miles from the city and the right & left wings are one mile from it? We can see plainly all the Johnies fort & breastworks they always have better than we have. We had some awful heavy fights since you have left us, and if it would not of been for the 147 PV sticking to it, so well and bravely in their breastwork even didnt know or see their danger. I say positively the rebels had driven both ends of this whole corps, the rebels were already in our rear coming down the line like so many tigers but the regiment did not move an inch. We had Cap Knapps battery at one end and Buntings Brass Battery at the other end. I will tell you how Cap. Bunting fixed it, he had prepared 25 shot bags full of musket balls about 160 bullets in each bag ready, and when he seen the rebels come down our line he put in one bag powder then grape and cannister then one of these bags of bullets. I tell you it fairly rained grape and bullet then made the rebels get down and hunt their holes in a hurry. I seen the whole thing with my own eyes for I wasnt fifty yards distant all the time. I tell you I never seen batteries worked so quick since I am in service. This is what saved the whole 20th Corp now, we would either be dead or in Savannah as prisoners. Lot if you have vote, vote Democrat...” Fine condition. (2 items)
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