Raynors HCA 2015-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/19/2015
A good war-date Union soldiers letter, 4pp. 8vo., written, on patriotic stationery, by Corp. Joseph Reed, Battery B, (Cooper's Battery), 1st Penn. Light Artillery, "Big Falls," [Great Falls, Md.], Sept. 15, 1861, in part: "…we are now encamped twenty miles from Washington near the Big Falls on the Potomac River. We expect to go back to Tenlytown tomorrow…the "Secesh" shot at us about a week ago & missed us clean & clear by jingo. They never touched us. They shot at us about an hour & a half with six cannon, two of which were twelve pounders & the other four were six pounders. The shells whistled over & around us but never touched a hair of our heads, when they commenced shooting at us our boys were at their posts in less than ten seconds, but the old colonel would not let us shoot. He said he thought they wanted to find out the strength of our forces on this side of the river & he determined they should not. We retreated about a mile back into the woods & there we have remained undisturbed ever since. Last week we moved our pieces down on the river bank & shot fifty five rounds at them. We shot into every house & barn we saw but we received no reply…". Also included is the original Pennsylvania "Loyal States of the Union" patriotic cover. Overall VG
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