September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
War-date Union soldier's Autograph Letter Signed by Henry A. Wiley, 104th New York Vols, 4pp. quarto, Near Cedar Mountain, Virginia, January 19, 1864, and reads in part: "...We broke camp near Kelly's Ford on the 24 of December...marched by the way of Brandy Station and Culpeper to this place which is called Mitchell's Station and is within one half mile of Cedar Mountain and within one mile of the battlefield where Banks had such a terrible battle with Jackson, Aug 9, 1862, and where our Regt first witnessed the horrors of a battlefield. We arrived here about sundown of the same day which Christmas Eve and bivouacked for the night. Next day a strong force went out reconnoitering just at night the Rebs opened a couple of pieces of artillery on Capt. G.W. Wills who had command of a squadron of cavalry, that were doing picket...without doing any harm to him or his command...I was detailed the first night after we arrived here to act as Brigade Officer of the picket and sent out after nine oclock at night with 200 men to form the line...I took possession of a farm house and the negro huts which had been vacated by the inhabitants....Our brigade is in the advance of the whole arm being two miles in advance of the cavalry and doing picket as far front as the cavalry. We are about two miles from the 130th NY Dragoons...I took 2 Rebs as prisoners they were from the 2nd Georgia Battalion, and were very intelligent men and talked nearly sensible. They said that they had now been in the Rebel army most three years and they though that they were destined to be whipped in the end and that too very soon as we had more men and more money..." Fine condition.
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