2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Autograph Letter Signed, Sylvester Willard, Lt. later Capt. 98th New York Infantry, 8p. octavo, Albany, December 6, 1862, with cover addressed to his brother in Connecticut, it reads in part: “...I think I told you...of my interview with Col. Rucker the Quartermaster of Transportation...and of my posting over to General Meigs office for the same purpose...All utterly refused me transportation...I met Mrs. Genl Terry who came on the cars at Baltimore...by the Fortress Monroe Boat...I did not endorese the sentiments of the Vermont Colonel. I can forsee that we may, if we will, occupy Richmond in thirty days. If Banks with 50,000 men goes up the James River & Burnside with 120,000 presses forward from Fredericksburg against the broken columns of the Enemy, why may it not be so. It seems to me that such is the plan of the Campaign. My labors as Medical Examiner were great....My report was first to the Surgeon General...My examinations are known to have been rigid, yet my rejections are only 1 in 3 1/10...My article ‘Medical Exmainations’ is in the Medical & Surgical Reporter just received....” Much more. Fine.
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