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Here is a Gettysburg Civil War letter we have sold in the past:

Gettysburg Letter, 6th Michigan Cavalry

Exceptional letter spanning 20 pages by a cavalryman in the famous Michigan Brigade under General George Custer, specifically the 6th Michigan Cavalry, Co. C. Letter by Allen Rice not only recounts the regiment’s famous engagement on the last day at Gettysburg, but also the Battle of Hunterstown on 2 July (where the regiment “particularly distinguished itself” according to General Kilpatrick), and the Fight at Monterey Pass on 4 July in pursuit of Lee’s Army on the precarious mountain pass.

Letter to Rice’s friend is dated 25 August 1863 from Oak Grove, Virginia, beginning with his adjustment to soldiering, and then segueing to the action around Gettysburg. Letter reads in part, “…I had often heard the soldiers tell about laying in the water where it was a foot deap but I never believed it untill I see it and then I had to believe it…On the 28 day of June wich was on Sunday we went to Getesburg…the scout went out to see what they could find. They soon came in with the news that thare was about 60 thousand of the Rebs about 2 miles from thare so we just dug out as fast as possible and it was a lucky thing two for we had not bin out of the town more than an hour when all of Stewart’s Calvry came in. If we had all bin together that is the whole division we would have stood our ground but they ware divided up into brigades and ware scouting around to see what they could find, so we retreated back about 5 miles and laid all night.” Sold for $6,000.

Gettysburg Civil War letter
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