Raynor HCA 2014-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/1/2014
A good war-date Union Hospital Steward's letter, 4pp. 4to., signed "Willie", written by William L. Jackson, 3rd Vermont, "Camp near Harrison Landing, July 23, 1862", in part: "…Dr. W. J. Sawin arrived in camp this morning. He arrived here with about 500 other prisoners. Sherry is among them. He had his big toe shot off and is now on the S. R. Spaulding. Most of the wounded from our brigade are there. He (Sawin) looks as though he had sen hard times. He said that it cost them 1.50 a day besides their rations to get enough to eat…there was…a crowd around him asking all kinds of questions…he saw Horace Ide [captain 5/9/65 WIA Gainesville, Va 10/19/63 & Opequan, Va., (/19/64] and one other man from the Vt. Cavalry. They were taken prisoners a few days ago at Orange C. H. They were in the advance and saw two rebel pickets…they fired and unhorsed one of them and were chasing the other when…the road behind and before them was full of rebel infantry. He is well and said Pope is advancing…with 80,000 and Banks with 70,000…the men are still kept hard at work on the fortifications…Corp. Nute wrote to Mrs. Howard giving all the particulars of Eph's [Color Corporal E. Howard KIA Savage Station, Va., 6/29/62] death. Williams of Co. C [Hosea B. Williams KIA Spotsylvania, Va., 5/12/64] ran up to him when he fell, he could just speak and said 'tell mother that I died for the cause'. A moment afterwards Sergt. Miller spoke to him, but he did not recognize him and was just gasping when he was obliged to leave him. I will ask Sawin if he was buried…9 p. m.-have just seen Sawin. He did not know any thing about Eph., but said that the rebels buried all our dead. He saw some of the men that were at Liberty Hall at a window of one of the prisons…many of the men lost every thing they had except what they had on their backs…a number of the men are being court martialed for leaving their Cos. while on the retreat. Capt. [Fernando] Harrington left the Regt and has had charges preferred against him for cowardice. [He was discharged on July 23, 1862.] Capt. [Augustine] West is always sick when there is any fighting to be done [His resignation was accepted on Sept. 19, 1862]…". VG
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