Raynors HCA 2015-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/19/2015
A great Union court marshal document by 17th Connecticut field officer who was wounded and captured by Confederate guerrillas in Florida almost one year from the date he signed the document. The original manuscript document is, 2 1/4pp. folio, Fort Trumbull, CT, Feb. 9, 1864 being special orders No. 55 in which several recruits of the 11th Conn. Vols. were found guilty of being absent without leave while their sentence was for them "to be confined to the guard, standing on a barrel, or something of the kind, in front of the guard house…". Signed and made official by Lt. Col. Albert H. Wilcoxson as commander of the 17th Connecticut who died as a POW (at Tallahassee) after being wounded and captured by Confederate guerrillas while on a raid near Dunn's Lake, Florida on Feb. 5, 1865. Also of interest is that two of the three men being punished became casualties during Ben Butler's ill-fated Bermuda Hundred campaign in May 1864. Near fine.
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