Raynors HCA 2015-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/3/2015
A good war-date Union soldier's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written, on patriotic stationery, by Pvt. George Bender [WIA Second Bull Run, Va., 8/29/62], Battery B, (Cooper's Battery), 1st Penn. Light Artillery, Camp Pierpont, Nov. 28, [1861], to his brother, in part: "…we are still at old Camp Pierpont…we got orders this evening to go out on a forage expedition…we may have a fight before we get back…there will be two or three regiments of infantry with us…we may have to fight for all we get. There was a regiment of cavalry out on a scouting expedition the other night and they come in contact with a lot of rebels in a swamp…they fired on our men and our men surrounded the swamp and took eleven of them prisoners and killed some of them…they killed some of our men to[o] some four or five. They fitch the [?] that they took past our camp…they was a puty hard looking set. They had no uniform on and there arms was double barrel shotguns and common rifles…our men had took eight hundred prisoners…your efectinate brother, George Bender…". The original stamped transmittal cover is included. VG
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