Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
War-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Corp. Samuel C. Kirkpatrick [WIA in the face at Port Gibson, Miss., 5/1/63], Co. E, 11th Wisc. Vols., Pilot Knob, Mo., Feb. 27, 1863," in part: "…we left West Plains the 8 of Feb. and arrived here the 20. We had a very hard march…the flint was so bad it cut our shoes…opts of the boys marched barefooted and our teams had but little forage for…it was not in the country. Marmaduke's troops had been over the country and sweep everything before them…we did not go through to Little Rock…the fleet could not do nothing up White River…when the news came that we was a going back to the Knob there was some loud cheering. We are back in our old range and we feel almost as good as if we was at home. Our camp is 4 miles from the Knob. There is ten men allowed a day to go down to town out of a Co. The boys is making the good old bourbon suffer. I was down to town yesterday it looked quite natural…when we got here out teams was completely played out. Dead mules on all sides of the road. It was nothing to see 3 or 4 in one mud hole dead together. We had to press all the mules and horses and oxen of the citizens…". The original stamped transmittal cover is included. Kirkpatrick's phonetic spelling has been corrected. VG
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