Raynors HCA 2015-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/19/2015
A good war-date Union soldier's letter, 3pp. 8vo., written, on patriotic stationery, by Pvt. Lewis R. Robinson [WIA Bethesda Church, Va., 5/30/64], Co. A, 1st Pennsylvania Reserve Corps (30th Penn. Vols.), Camp Todd, Annapolis Junction, Md., Aug. 25, [61], concerning their effort of helping breakup a smuggling operation of Baltimore citizens who transported medicine and other necessities through the suburbs of Annapolis to their Rebel friends in Virginia, in part: "…we make a capture every once and a while. We got a lot of contraband goods and two men at one haul. They must have bin fifteen or twenty boxes of drugs…the doctor says that they are worth five thousand dollars…the three horses and two wagons…are worth from six to seven hundred…that is a very good haul…on Sunday our picket got a white man and a nigger and two horses…as they came back they took these contrabands of war…the police of Baltimore was after them and said that they had arms with them but the first man we took said that the drugs were for the Southern army so we cheated them [the police] out of it…the Secessionist intend to cross the Potomac and…take Annapolis and then take Maryland but they will have a gay old time of it…we would as…shoot a man as look at him…if he comes looking about after night…we are prepared…to [get] our [new] guns as we have still got the old flint lock guns…we will be ready for them. We presented our captain [Henry M. McIntire POW; WIA (left leg amputated) Charles City Cross Roads, Va., June 30, 62; died June 12, 1863] with a sword and sash lost night. One of our men made a presentation speech…". VG
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