Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
War-date Union soldier's battle letter, 1 1/2pp. folio, written by Private Gardiner T. McDaniel, Co. I., 3rd Maine Vols., Alexandria, Va., July 23, 1861, in part: "…one week ago today we left our camps and tramped three days and then stopped till Sunday morning at two o'clock and then marched about 3 miles and then…the officers put us threw about 4 miles as hard as we could run till we got to the battlefield where I never saw such a horrible site…the battle began at 12 o'clock on Saturday nit and lasted till 3 in the afternoon on Sunday, the 21day of July which will be surely remembered by this Nation…about forty thousand of our troops against about 80 or ninety000 of the rebels. The loss of our men…is 5 thousand killed and wounded and the loss of the rebels is more than ours. We came back about 10 miles that nite…John Dodge, Briggs Turner, Sam [his brother] and my self staid under thi[s] fence till morning…traveled 30 miles till we reached our camp ground and stopped there till Tuesday. [Brother] George we have not seem or heard from him since the battle. He was well then. We are going to Washington and prepare for another battle…". VG
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