Raynors HCA 2016-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/17/2016
War-date Union soldier's Grant Overland Campaign letter, 3pp. 8vo., (including a 4 1/2" x 17" newspaper article clipped out of the May 18, 1864 issue of the Lynchburg Virginian giving a Southern point of view of Grant's Overland Campaign) written by Pvt. George S. Youngs, [POW Harper's Ferry, Va., 9/15/62], Co. G, 126th New York Vols., "Headquarters 2nd Corps three miles from Atley Station, Va., May 31, 1864", in part: "…prisoners that have been taken today say that Beauregard is now in our front and that Lee has gone back to Richmond. We are still driving the enemy…the Regt has had a very hard time of it. The folks at home can have no idea of the hardships and dangers they have and are passing through, but they are still in good spirits. We have nothing to do with taking care of the wounded…I cannot be thankful enough for the situation I am in…Gen. Hancock's headquarters are almost always in range of their artillery and we always lay near there. We furnish guard for the headquarter's wagons and horses [and have a sentinel in front of Gen. H's tent…guard all prisoners that are sent in and on the march follow in rear of the corps and keep up stragglers…Charley Benedict who was killed in our Co. was no relation of Ira's that I am aware of. Lieut. Stanton was not severely wounded and is and has been doing his duty nobly. He asks no one under his command to go further than himself…I send you a piece of the Lynchburg Virginian. I intended to send a whole one but the boys tore it up before I was aware of it…George S. Youngs." The original stamped transmittal cover is included. A bit light, else VG.
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