Raynor HCA 2013-01
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A great war-date Union officer's battle letter, 1p. 4to. plus 12mo. sheet, written by 1st Lt. Nathaniel Howard Talbot, Co. B, 58th Mass. Vols. [Petersburg, Va.], April 2, [1865] on the fall of Petersburg reading, in part: "Sunday night 10x50 PM…there had been a big fight to day. We turned out last night at 1/2 past 10 and have been on duty ever since… we charge[d] the reb forts and captured 3 or 4 and hold them. We have been reinforced and Sheridan has burned a bridge between Petersburg & Richmond…the 58th losses is light. I had a man killed, 1 wounded and 2 missing. The officers are all right except Lieuts. Chase & Dudley. They are missing but…supposed to be all right. I am as tired as I ever was and must close…PS. You never saw a worse looking object in your life all covered with mud from my feet to my waist, went into the water so that wet my vest…[Thursday Mar. [April] 6, [1865]…I am all right. we are on a march somewhere [and] don't know where. I am acting Adjutant and have a horse to ride…Lt. Dudley & Chase are prisoners. We lost 2 or 3 killed and some few wounded and prisoners…I am all right. Capt. [Ansel B.]Randall [56th Mass. Vols.] was killed. His body is to be sent home. Don't worry about about me. There ant much much more fighting. The rebs are skedaddling…". VG
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