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Lot 403
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$300 -
400
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$250
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[CIVIL WAR]. Illustrated union officer letter. Autograph letter signed ("Frank"), to "my dear wife." Camp Alexander, Washington, 1 June 1862.
4pp, 8vo, on bifolium. With an accomplished drawing of a tent encampment labeled "My house." "They say MacC[llelan] is fighting hard at Richmond & that Banks is gaining on the enemy on his line and has taken back the prisoners he lost and 3,000 more of the enemy."
[With:] ALS, Fort Warren, 3 March 1862, to his wife. 1p, 8vo.