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 Pvt. George Bender (WIA Second Bull Run, Va., 8/29/62), Battery B, (Cooper's Battery), 1st Penn. Light Artillery, Washington City, Aug. 25, 1861, in part: "…we are drilling here every day…we have only four guns and about fifty or sixty horses. I have two little bay horses. One I call Bill and the other Dick…one half of our company is going to the Big Falls on the Potomac river…we was out on drill the other day and there was about ten or fifteen thousand soldiers in the field and Old Abe Lincoln was there and he went all around the field and we all had a good chance to see him and after he was around we all gave him three cheers and it mad a good deal of noise…there is about one hundred and ninety thousand soldiers handy around here…we have to go on guard about every third night…". Also included is the original stamped patriotic cover bearing a cachet of Gen. Geo. B. McClellan as he appeared at Washington "on the morning of July 26, 1861." Overall VG
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