September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
War-date Union soldier's Autograph Letter Signed by Henry A. Wiley, 104th New York Vols, 4pp. octavo, Near White Oaks Church, Virginia, May 28, 1863, and reads in part: "...All the boys are usually well but Charley Willis [POW at Gettysburg an Weldon Railroad, died while at Salisbury prison from starvation] he is threatened with the fever but I think he will get along in a day or two. Yesterday we received orders to be in readiness to march at a moments notice....I do not think that Hooker will attempt to cross again until he has more troops. Our corps which is the first is reduced one half by the expiration of the 9 month and 2 yrs regt which has gone home so that we do not now number more than 8 or 9000 men in the corps. We hear good news from Grants Army. I hope that it will be confirmed today...Capt. James K Selleck of our Regt has been cashiered and his sentence to be published in the Troy papers..." Very good condition.
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