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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1637

Civil War: Union Soldier´s Letters Group of seven ALS by James McIntyre of the 49th NY Volunteer Infantry, April 1862 and later (most are not fully dated), five on patriotic stationery (two of "The Soldier´s Dream" of home, two of GB McClellan, and one with the text of the "Soldier´s Memento,"). At the Battle of Yorktown during the Peninsula Campaign, he writes "The rebbels fired from thair rifle pits at our pickets. Thare was a blase of fire for a mile long. We fire a few shells at them and thay stoped...I think this will be the last battle if we whip them." He tells of the Battle of Hanover Court House, "Thare was about three hundred killed and wounded and about one thousand on the rebbels side we got five hundred prisoners. I saw a lot of the wounded Rebels and thay was most all of them wounded in the back." In a later skirmish, "I saw a shell strike one of our men and it tore him most to peaces. We have got hardend so that we can stand and see alll most any thing." On June 15 he reports of having met with enemy pickets:

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