Raynor HCA 2014-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/30/2014
A great war-date Union soldier's battle letter, 3pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. Charles Wilson, Co. F, 11th Michigan Vols., Murphreesboro, Tn., Jan. 9, 1863, in part: "…I have been in one of the hardest battles that has been fought in this war. It lasted 10 days. There was a large number of our men killed and wounded. Three was killed in my company. I did not get hurt…the balls flew thick and fast in every direction. We covered the ground with butternuts for miles…they fought madly and desperately, but our army was the best…though at a terrible cost. I saw the regiment that Luther was in. [It was] in the thickest of the fight. It was badly cut up…one of the boys of his company told me that he was wounded in the shoulder, but not dangerously. I can't go where he is now…it rained every day of the fight…the dead laid eight days, some of them before they was buried and the butternuts is not under ground yet. All of…the number of killed and wounded will never known. They covered the ground [in] every where we went…we had no tents any of the time and laid in the rain but there was so much fighting to do that no one was sick…". VG to near fine.
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