Raynor HCA 2013-07
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/18/2013
A great war-date Union soldier's battle letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. John H. Chadwick, Co. F, 12th Connecticut Vols. [KIA Cedar Creek, Va., 10/19/64], Brashear City, La., Aug. 7, 1863", in part: "…we got back from Port Hudson about two weeks ago after an abets of nearly four months. We marched from this place the 9th of…April and had a three days fight with the rebels some 200 miles from here. Our brigade which is Weitzel's brigade [was] in the advance which we have held in the four months campaign…we have marched between 5 and 6 hundred miles before we went to Port Hudson. Our brigade went into the fight on the 20th of May and was in the charge on the 14th of June on the breastworks of Port Hudson. On the 10th of June…our regiment was ordered to charge on the rebels…it was at twelve o'clock at night. The rebs was too much for us…we lost nearly 50 men…3 captains all wounded but two and our colonel [future Brevet Brig. Gen. Frank H. Peck]. Capt. Clark of our company was badly wounded and has since gone home…we left Brashear City with over seven hundred men and have come back with a little over two hundred…I was in the siege of Port Hudson 43 days until it was surrendered on the 8th of July. On the 9th we marched in. That night our brigade took transports and went down the river to Donaldsonville and staid there a few days…while we was at Port Hudson the rebels took this place. All of our regiment clothing and knapsacks was left here which they got…while at Port Hudson one man was lying down reading a paper sent from home [when] a ball from some rebel killed him. He was a few rods from me. He supposed he was safe…". VG
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