Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
War-date Union soldier's letter, 3pp. 8vo., written by Corp. Samuel C. Kirkpatrick [WIA in the face at Port Gibson, Miss., 5/1/63], Co. E, 11th Wisc. Vols., Old Town, Arkansas, Aug. 17, 1862, in part: "…7 Co. out of [our] Regiment and sum of the 33 Ill. Reg gone down the river with the fleet of gunboats. Our troops is in Little Rock at last and the report is that General Hindman is a coming downWhite River to get Vicksburg…as our men got in 15 miles of Little Rock the rebels left and…the boats left this morning with 5 days rations…Sample Scrogen [James Simple Scoggin] died nite before last and was buried yesterday morning. He had the brain fever and was a getting along very well…we was very sorry to lose him for he has proved to be a good soldier and a good boy. It will take his parents with a great surprise…we have a darkey to do all fatigue duty such as cooking, loading the wagons and cutting new roads…the negroes has meeting every Sunday. Oh Lord how they dress nice with white silk stockings. [If] one see[n] the legs of them [they] would think it was somebody. Oh golly how they strut. The officers don't let any stay in camp without [being] employed. Some of them comes to the general and swear that they have worked on fortifications that beaver seen a fortification. John Carpenter is a gaining Holy cicapoo [he] is got the ager. He looks ruff…". The original stamped transmittal cover is included. Kirkpatrick's phonetic spelling has been corrected. One crease with archival tape repair, else VG
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