Raynor HCA 2014-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/1/2014
A good war-date Union soldier's letter, 3pp. 8vo., on patriotically bordered stationery, written by Pvt. Halsey Bartlett, Co. A., 6th Conn. Vols., [KIA Bermuda Hundred, Va., 6/17/64], Washington, Sept. 20, 1861, in part: "…Here I am in Washington the seat of Government…we started from New Haven…on Tuesday…we are encamped about two miles from the capitol…there is to be a soldier shot here…for sleeping on guard second time. While I am writing I can hear heavy firing t the southwest…a regiment of Union men attacked by a party of Secession men that were throwing up breast works on the other side of the Potomac which accounts for the firing. There is 280 regiments in and around Washington…we had no trouble in coming through any city. We were received in Philadelphia and treated the same as citizens and the same in Baltimore…there is 10 regiments in sight [of] our camp. One Reg. of Anderson Zouaves, 55 New York Regiment…there is one dies every day and sometimes two in one of the hospitals…". VG
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