Raynors HCA 2015-08
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/27/2015
A good war-date Union soldier's, 3pp. 4to., written by Sgt. Charles H. Roney (signed, "your son, Charles, 5th Sarget., Co. D., 16th Regt. O. V. U. S. A."), Co. D, 16th Ohio Vols., "Camp Hardscrabble, 4 miles from Summerset, Ky., January 21, 1862, in part: "…we left Camp Clay on Monday 13th of January 1862 and was 7 days on the road. We marched 64 miles through mud, rain and rivers and carried a Damn full knapsack, canteen, a cartridge box with 210 rounds of ball cartridges. The first day we marched 12 miles. The 2nd, 8 [miles]. The 3rd, 16, the 4 day we laid over to rest…when we got here our men and Old Zollicoffer was fighting like Hell about 5 miles from here, but the Old Col. said that we was too tire to go…our forces have whipped old Zollicoffer and have taken his entrenchments…everything he had and killed the Damned of son of a bitch…there is some dissatisfaction amongst the field officer because we did not get there in time for the fight…there was 65 of our men killed and about 3 times that number of the rebels…the major say that we would go to Knoxville…we may get orders to march in a day or 2…all the forces that was in the fight are coming back to Summerset. There 3 or 4 Ohio Regts, 2 Tennessee & some Indiana regt…". Also included is the original stamped patriotic transmittal panel. VG
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