2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Autograph Letter Signed, Captain of Cavalry, G.W. Jackson, 2p. quarto, Post Monterey, September 15, 1861, addressed to Colonel John Brown Baldwin, and reads in part: “...I beg leave to report that the aggregate force of cavalry under my command at this post & on the road to Petersburg, including the sick & those absent, is 190...there are only 49 privates, 2 comd. 13 non-comd. officers present for duty at this post...I have on the road to Petersburg, about 31 cavalry who are under the command of Lt. McCoy, whether they all escaped from the rout near Petersburg I am unable to say with certainty, having received no official report on this point from Lt. McCoy, though I have heard that all of them got thro’ safe. Lt. McCoy’s infantry force was reported by him to me to be 185 & he expected to get 15 or 20 recruits but he has not reported how many he has succeeded in getting...The whole number of prisoners is 28 of whom 25 were arrested for disloyalty - one is a prisoner taken from one of the Ohio regiments & 2 are privates belonging to the 44th Regt. of Va. Vols confined under chargers of insubordination...” Fine.
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