2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
A very good war-date ink inscribed Union soldier’s 2pp. 4to. battle letter written by Sgt. Enoch Kirby, Co. I, 51st Penn. Vols. Newbern, N. C., March 21, 1862, concerning the Union victory achieved with the battle of Newbern, Mar 14, 1862, in part: “…on the 14th we gave the rebels a real good licking...this is one of the grandest victories since the commencement of the war. They had no less than twelve or thirteen forts along the river extending a distance of 3 miles…they had breastworks extending about 4 miles…with batteries erected at different points but all of no use. The yankees was bound to get in. We have captured about sixty large cannon and thirteen field pieces…the guns are mostly new and made at Richmond and Norfolk…Ben Rowland and myself went along the enemys works and I counted fifty six horses that was shot. Some of the finest kind of horses. At another place I seen a rebels leg with his shoe on it yet. It looked like some old horse foot...”. Kirby remained with his regiment, fighting at Burnside’s Bridge during the battle of Antietam latter that fall, and died of disease in Feb. 1863. Minor fold splits, else very good.
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