Raynors HCA 2015-05
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/21/2015
A good war-date Union officer's letter, 3pp. 4to., written by Captain Augustus Alonzo Hoit, Co. G, 8th Maine Vols. (later captain 34th USCT), Tybee Island, S. C., May 9, 1862, in part: "…our Lieut. Col. has resigned and gone home…we are now engaged in putting our mortars and big guns on ship board…we could take Savannah, but that would enable the rebels to send the forty or fifty thousand troops which are assembled there to some other place. It is rumored that Yorktown has fallen…I can scarily believe that driving the rebels from Virginia will end the war. I hope the government will not enter into any compromise with the rebels nor make peace with them till they are thoroughly whipped. We are not in Gen. Viele's Brigade now. Gen. Viele has gone to N. York and we are under the command of Gen. Gillmore though Gen. Benham commands the division and Gen. Hunter the district; Gen. Sherman having been recalled. Our Reg. stands high in the estimation of all the generals here…yours in love, Alonzo…". VG
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