Raynors HCA 2015-08
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/27/2015
War-date Confederate soldier's letter, 2pp. 8vo., written by Pvt. Joseph S. Lipe, Co. I, 7th North Carolina State Troops, [MWIA Gaines Mills, Va., 6/27/62, died 7/06/62], [n. p., but Carolina City, N. C.], Jan. 17, 1862, in part: "…I am going to leave Carolina in the morning…they want all of the men that can be spared and Dr. Singleton is going to send all but two. There is no use of so many cooks now for the men has got well and gone to camp…we expect a fight at New Bern and I don't know whether or not the Seventh Regiment will be ordered. The Twenty-Sixth Regiment went yesterday. We are ordered to be ready at a minutes warning…direct your letters to Sheppardsville, Camp Graham in care of Capt. J. R. McAulay, J. S. Lipe". Capt. James R. McAulay was WIA Gaines Mill, Va. 6/27/62; Chancellorsville, 5/03/63 and KIA Ream's Station, Va., 8/25/64. Lipe's minor phonetic spelling has been corrected. Minor paper loss at upper right corner with some soiling, else VG
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