September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
War-date Union soldier's Autograph Letter Signed by Charles H. Davinalls [?], 4pp. octavo, pencil, March 5, 1864, Jacksonville, Florida, and reads in part: "...we began to skirmish with the rebels pickets about 2 hours afterwards were driven back to Sanderson. We stopped there till the next day then we went back to the next station and stopped there a week in which time we fortified the place. We then advanced with about five thousand men, we had two light batteries and about five hundred mounted men in all. We walked about 20 miles and about 3 oclock in the afternoon we came to a place called rusty run. The rebs had large breastworks there and rifle pits about two miles long and were on the other side of the creek. The rifle pits were in the shape of a half moon and they waited till they had us well enclosed in their lines when they opened all at once on us with artillery and infantry and after about 3 hours hard fighting we were driven back with a heavy loss of killed and wounded..." Fine condition.
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