Raynors HCA 2015-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/3/2015
A good war-date Union soldier's letter, 1p. 4to., written by Pvt. George Bender [WIA Second Bull Run, Va., 8/29/62], Battery B, (Cooper's Battery), 1st Penn. Light Artillery, [Great Falls, Md.], Oct. 15, 1861, in part: "…we are on the soil of Virginia. We came across the Chain bridge last Saturday night…we had a bad accident yesterday. We had two of our men shot. Frederic Siferd [Frederick B. Seifert] was shot through the heart and killed…the other through the arm. We [ar] in camp with an infantry regiment and they was out on dress parade and the orders was ground arms…as it happened one of the muskets went off. Fred was siting in the tent writing when he was shot. Abe Rhodes and I, Samuel Mayne [WIA Second Bull Run right arm amputated] and Mart Pile [Martin Pyle] tent in the same tent. It was just before supper. If it had been a little later it might have killed some more of us, but good luck…there was no more of us in the same time. We expect to have a fight every minute for we are about three miles from the rebels…we will have a fight before you get this letter…direct your letter, Washington D. C., Co. B…George Bender." The original transmittal cover endorsed by U. S. Representative JESSE LAZEAR (1804-1877) from Pennsylvania. VG
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