Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
War-date Union soldier's letter, 2pp. 8vo., written by Corp. Samuel C. Kirkpatrick [WIA in the face at Port Gibson, Miss., 5/1/63], Co. E, 11th Wisc. Vols., Sulphur Springs, Mo., Camp Curtis, Dec. 11, 1861, in part: "…I was corporal of the guard last night at 10 o'clock the picket guard was fired upon. One of them came in to camp and gave the alarm. The adjutant…gave the captains the…order for the men to fall in with musket, arm[s] and equipment. The boys fell in very quick, but some of them was scared so bad that they tuck the back ague. It was a false alarm. The cavalry [had] been out on a scout and fired on the pickets for fun. There is 300 cavalry from Wis., Milw. here now and Larabee [?] is with them. He is in our tent now…he had been in the service 4 months. He is the same old Laraby. 3 of our companies has gone 60 miles down the river to the Burnt Bridge. I was down to the banks of the river and I saw lots of the boys in a swimming. That was the 7 of this month…we rip around here in our shirt sleeves. There was a squad of us went out three or four miles…we saw sum purty rough co[untry] and sum ruff gals…things was sober here last Sunday. The flag hung at half mast all day. One of our boys died on Saturday night. He was one of the Mineral Point boys. His name was Mike Bender. We buried him about three hundred yards from the camp…". The original stamped patriotic transmittal cover is included. Kirkpatrick's phonetic spelling has been corrected. VG
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