Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
War-date Union soldier’s Autograph Poem Signed by Corporal John F. Troxell, Co. "G", 3rd Maryland Infantry, U.S.A., 3pp., octavo on embossed patriotic stationery, August 6, 1861, addressed on back panel to a Miss Emily Fletcher. Titled “The Old Home”, it reads in small part: "…The birthday gifts and festivals / The blended Vesper hymn, / (But one dear one was swelling it / Is with the Seraphim)/ The fond good nights of bedtime,/ How quiet sleep would come, / And fold us all together,/ In the Old, Old Home…" About Very good condition. Troxell was captured at Harpers Ferry on September 13, 1862 and exchanged after some nine months on Belle Isle near Richmond. He saw action at Harpers Ferry, Moncacy, Snicker’s Gap and Bolivar Heights.
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