Raynor HCA 2014-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/30/2014
Good Union soldier’s letter written by Private J. H. Skelly who enlisted 12/14/1861 into the 101st Pennsylvania, April 15, 1862, 4pp., on patriotic letterhead, VG. In part, “I will give you account of the Merrimack. She is an iron clad boat. She is the boat that sunk the Congress and Cumberlandand she is lying at Sewel’s Point and she come out every day but sent them too far from her quarters. They took two of oure vessels. One was laden with cole and the other was only the little. Monitor is watching hir very close. The Monitor looks like two logs of wood. In the watter she is only about eighteen inches out of watter. I never seen anything like hir in my life she looks like a cheese box in the water. We past within about one hundred yards from hir when we came down the river. She is kept at the fourt to keep the Meremeck from pasing down the river, for if she gets out she would do a great dele of harm, so they have to keep hir in hir quarters, although she comes up to Newport News on hir one side of the river. She don’t venture two nere here, for there is guns here throws balls that weys 62 lb and they wasn’t come close to them, though the balls that hit the Marimack has no more impression on hir than throughing peas against a card board house but the little Monnitor opened hir bredbasket for hir. She had hard work to get to hir port But she has been fixt up and is out a gain he has spat at oure boats from this port yesterday for the critter was out and they would not venture ...”
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