September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
War-date Union officer's Autograph Letter Signed by William C. Burgess, 15th Connecticut Infantry, commissioned August 25, 1862, promoted to captain May 20, 1863 and taken prisoner at Kinston March 8, 1865. This letter is 4pp. octavo, Headquarters Co. D, 15th Connecticut Volunteers, New Berne, North Carolina, September 17, 1864, and reads in part: "...Pardon the liberty I take in writing you Major but for fear that no one else will write I think it my burden duty to do so, in order that you may know the dangers which menace those that 'go through the canal'. The canal route is beset with ruffians and marauders alias 'guerrillas' and they do say that there has been a boat burned on the canal. People traveling that way I think might lose their hats and if there were none of your obliging friends there to assist you might never see it again. That would be a great pity...I write you of these dangers at the urgent request of Capt. Bussett, who says that some one ought to tell you that there has been a boat burned at the canal, he supposing that you may not know of it..." More. Fine condition.
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