28th New York Infantry Letter

3 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by John A. Yeckley. Fully identified with company and regiment.

Camp near Darnstown, Maryland, Oct. 17 [1862]

Dear brother,

It has been some time since I have written to you or heard from you & the reason why is that I did not know where to write for I heard that you had enlisted & that is the reason that I have not written oftener. I got a letter from mother yesterday & she is in want of some money. She says she is not allowed a cent this summer & that her feet is bare to the ground. It is...  

28th New York Infantry Soldier Letter

3 1/2 pages, 5 1/8 x 6 1/2, in ink, written by John A. Yeckley.

Winchester, Virginia, March 16th, 1862

Friend Josephine,

I received your letter yesterday & I was glad to hear from you for it was so long since I heard from you that I thought you had forgotten me. The reason that I did not write before is because I heard that you was not at home & besides that I did not receive any answer to my last letter. We are once more in Virginia & we expected to have a fine time taking Winchester, but the Rebels all left the night before...  

28th New York Infantry Letter

"you have heard all the news about the battle at Winchester. The Rebels lost killed, wounded & prisoner about twelve hundred, & we followed them about thirty miles, all along the road where they left their dead & wounded, nearly every horse was killed with the wounded."

3 pages, 5 x 7 1/2, in ink, written by John A. Yeckley, Company E, 28th New York Infantry, to his brother.

Camp Near Edinburg, Va., March 8th/62

Dear brother,

I received your letter last night & was glad to hear from you for I had not...  

1862 Letter From Gorham, Maine

Written on a beautiful full color Union patriotic letter sheet

"I hope this [war] will soon come to an end and have peace again in our country."

4 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Benjamin Frey, to George H. Yeckley, on a beautiful full color patriotic letter sheet featuring Columbia holding a sword and the American flag. Very fine condition. Desirable patriotic stationary used in 1862.

Gorham, (Maine), February the 5th, 1862

Mr. George H. Yeckley,

Dear Sir,

My friend I must once more take the...  

11th New Jersey Infantry Soldier Letter and Cover

In the Battle of Gettysburg the 11th New Jersey Infantry lost 26 men killed and 122 wounded

4 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Quarter Master Sergeant Benjamin F. Titsworth, Co. D, 11th New Jersey Infantry, with the original cover addressed to Miss Amanda Wallace, Lawrenceville, Allegheny Co., Pennsylvania. C.D.S., Washington, D.C., Apr. 4, with 3 cents rose George Washington U.S. postage stamp. Excellent fully identified New Jersey soldier letter.

Wagon Park in the field
Quartermaster Department
11th New Jersey...  

29th Massachusetts Infantry Letter

Sawyer gun explodes killing 4 men and wounding 4 others with the largest piece passing over his head!

4 pages, 4 1/2 x 7 1/2, in ink, written by William E. Cobbett, Co. G, 29th Massachusetts Infantry, to his Father & Mother. Includes a worn patriotic envelope that has a full color illustration of a firing cannon with an American flag flying overhead. Addressed to Mrs. William Cobbett, Canton, Mass., with indistinct postmark, and stamp cut off.

Camp Butler, Newport News, Va., Feb. 12, [1862], Company G, 29 Reg. [Massachusetts...  

Union Naval Surgeon's Letter from the U.S.S. Mackinaw

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln

"I suppose the awful news of the murder of our beloved president created a great excitement in our little town..."

4 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Surgeon Joseph Cottrell, U.S. Navy. Comes with the original envelope addressed to Miss Hallie K. My, Columbia, Lancaster County, Penna., with C.D.S., Old Point Comfort, Va., Apr. 24, postage stamp has been torn off.

U.S.S. Mackinaw, James River, Va., April 24th, 1865

My Dear Hallie,

As I was...  

5th Maine Infantry Letter

Written by Captain Clark S. Edwards, future Colonel of the regiment

He commanded the 5th Maine Infantry during the battle of Gettysburg!

Promoted to Brevet Brigadier General for gallant conduct during the Civil War!

1861 letter with excellent references to the 1st Battle of Bull Run, Virginia

(1824-1903) Edwards was 37 years old when the news of the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter reached the small town of Bethel, Maine. He was high on a ladder shingling his roof and he immediately climbed down, obtained permission...