2023-03 HCA Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/7/2023
The wife of a Union soldier, "C.T.A Johns" writes a 4pp letter to her husband. Dateline; Granville Ohio, April 9, 1862. In part, "Mrs. Beck called with a sample of three sizes of bandages saying that Dr. Simmett started at 9 o'clock this evening for the 'field of slaughter' & wanted the ladies to make all the bandages they could & take them over to Mr. Pickards store. ... There has been a desparate & bloody battle at Pittsburgh landing on the Tennessee river fifteen miles south of Savannah between the latter place and Cornith. The 76th Ohio was in it. - also the other Ohio and Missouri regiments that the people around here have so many near and dear friends. The Union was victorious, but with - Oh what a loss of 18,000 on our side ... To be sure Island No. 10 was taken without a single loss of life on our side & with the capture of several hundred prisoners and 100 guns. ... Brother Henry's death was so sudden that I can hardly bear to think of it. ...." Comes with a 7-1/2" x 5-1/2" engraved image of The Battle At Pittsburg Landing
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