Raynor HCA 2014-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/30/2014
Good Union soldier’s letter written and signed by John Gregg, who enlisted 8/28/1862 into Company G, Pennsylvania 11th infantry, was wounded at Fredericksburk 12/13/1862, and finally died of wounds April 1,1865. The 4pp letter, is datelined, “Near Mechanicksville, Md. Fifteen miles from Gettysburg, In an old barn, July 9/63.” And closes with, “You will excuse this as I scratch it off in a hurry on a sheet of Rebel paper. No more. ... All of these things come out of dead Rebels pockets.” The body of the letter in part, “We left the battlefield the day before yesterday and came on same road we went last Wednesday a week ago, went into camp on the ground where we were mustered for pay. ... I had no sleep and in fact since the first of this month we have had the hardest kind of times worse than before. I thought when we go into Penna. we would live well, but it so turned out that no we could not.... We expect another great battle soon. About South Mountain or Antietam (old battle ground) if it was not for the looks of the thing ... When is this war to be over, I sometimes think never while a man lives that is now in the army....”
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