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110 ● (CIVIL WAR—MAPS.) Willcox, William H. Map of the Battlefield of
Antietam. Hand-colored map, 211/2 x 183/4 inches, a few short closed tears, slight loss at
intersection of folds; docketed on verso.
Philadelphia: P.S. Duval & Son, [1862] [1,000/1,500]
Prepared by a topographical officer who served under Brigadier General Abner Doubleday.
111 ● (CIVIL WAR—MASSACHUSETTS.) Copp, John C. Letter to the father of a
soldier who had fallen at Glendale. Autograph Letter Signed to B.L. White of
Cambridge, MA. 3 pages,, 73/4 x 43/4 inches, on one sheet; minor foxing.
Harrison Landing, VA, 19 July 1862 [200/300]
Three weeks after the Battle of Glendale, a comrade of fallen soldier George White in the 19th
Massachusetts Infantry writes to the father: “He did not speak after he received the second
shot. Everything that belonged to Geo. was lost. The rebels came down on them so suddenly
that they did not have time even to take his watch. . . . He was a general favorite with all. He
was a good soldier. He went into the field and received the enemies fire without flinching and
fell as brave a man as there is in this or any other army.”
112 ● (CIVIL WAR—NAVY.) Description of a Confederate ship attempting to
run the Mississippi River blockade at the close of the war. Autograph Letter
Signed as “Jes” to sister. 6 pages, 8 x 5 inches, on 2 sheets; separations at folds, crude tape
repairs, minor chipping. New Orleans, 26 April [1865] [200/300]
A Union soldier describes one of the last naval incidents of the war, in which the CSS Webb
made a desperate run down the Red River and the Mississippi in a bid for the open ocean,
before finally being scuttled by its crew past New Orleans. The unidentified author devoted
most of his long letter to a description of the pursuit: “All the men of war below us fired at her
but did not hit her. She was going down the river at the rate of 30 miles an hour. There was a
torpedo projecting from her bow. . . . The prevailing opinion here is that Jeff Davis or some
other of the leaders of the Confederacy were on board.”
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