Raynors HCA 2015-05
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/21/2015
Field Printed Broadside, “Headquarters 3d Brig., 1st Div., 24th A.C., - Army of the James, - Before Richmond, VA., Mar. 25, 1865”, 5-1/2” x 8-1/2”, VG In part, “At last, Soldiers, it becomes my duty to say farewell! ... uffice it to say, the record shows you engaged your country s foes, and had, killed and wounded, some of your number on fifty-nine different days !—that your losses, in the aggregate, were 1,385 out of 2,693 !—and that among the names of the battlefields adjudged to belong to your banners are: "Walthall Junction" or "Green Valley," " Chester Station," "Drury's Bluff," " Richmond Pike," "Bermuda Hundred," "Richmond and Petersburg Railroad," "Warebottom Church," "Strawberry Plains," ''Deep Bottom," "Deep Run," "Fussell's Mills," " S'iege of Petersburg," " Newmarket Heights," "Newmarket Road," "Darbytown Road," "Charles City Road," "Johnson's Plantation." Be proud of your record ... To the Eleventh Maine, my old Companions, farewell!”
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