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(CIVIL WAR.)
Group of 17 Civil War letters.
Various sizes and conditions.
Vp, 1862-65
[600/900]
Highlights: Don Carlos Buell. Front-line order in a secretarial hand to General Alexander
McCook. “Let [Jacob] Ammen go by forced marches immediately. He must if possible reach
Mulloys-Mitchellsville tonight. You must get to Tybee Springs. . . . Bragg crossed the
Cumberland Sunday and is moving by forced marches on Glasgow.” Nashville, TN, 11
September 1862 * L. Poore, of an unknown regiment. Letter to friend Lysander. “I begin to
feel very much like fight. I want to see this war progress and see the last Reble get his just
deserts, and that’s a little hemp well twisted.” Camp Butterfield, 2 January 1862 * George
G. Sinclair, sergeant in the 89th Illinois Infantry. Partial letter to aunt, complaining about the
Emancipation Proclamation. “Would rather see Wendal Philips shot today than the worst fire
eater of the South. . . Our commanders have all gone to Wash’t to find out what we are fight-
ing for, and I hope they will find the truth before enlisting another 600,000.” Last 4 pages of
a longer letter. Tennessee?, circa early 1863. Complete list upon request.
WITH
—a small group
of unrelated ephemera and philatelic material.
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(CIVIL WAR—AFRICAN-AMERICANS.)
Muster roll of 49th United States
Colored Infantry.
Partly-printed manuscript, 21 x 31 inches, signed numerous times by
Captain James P. Hall and other officers; wear and early tape repairs at folds.
Vicksburg, MS, 28 February 1865
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This muster roll lists the men of Company F in the 49th United States Colored Infantry,
formerly the 11th Louisiana Infantry (African Descent). They had seen combat at the Battle of
Milliken’s Bend, and by this point were doing garrison duty in Vicksburg. Each of the company’s
3 officers and 102 enlisted men are named with their rank, where they enlisted, and their pay
due. Two officers have signed for their pay, while the African-American enlisted men have signed
with their marks. Several of these soldiers were charged with mutiny in June 1864 for having
protested their treatment by Captain Hall; two ringleaders were executed, while others were
sentenced to hard labor (see Barnickel, Milliken’s Bend, page 154). Some of these mutineers are
listed as “absent in confinement for mutiny since June 13th 1864.” One soldier, Ransom
McDaniel, is marked as having died of consumption, and his widow’s back pay case was settled in
1881; the note appears over the tape, showing that repairs were made before that point.
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