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THBCSA 1st Sergeant Greer H. Baughman, Caskie's Battery, Dearing Battalion Pickett's Division, Army of Northern Virginia, Archiv
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Lot of of 6 letters, with 2 covers identified to 1st Sergeant Greer H. Baughman, Caskie's Battery, Dearing Battalion Pickett's Division, Army of Northern Virginia. Collection includes an exceptional letter describing actions taken at Gettysburg, letters regarding the Seven Day's Campaign, and a letter in which he discusses a friend who was killed by a sharpshooter while stationed at Petersburg.
From the Battle of Gettysburg, a portion of Greer’s letter to his mother reads:
The army is once again on Southern soil. We recrossed the Potomac on the morning of the 14th after traveling in the rain all night and going only 5 miles…the most miserable march I ever made. We had been in position for two days awaiting an attack…it would have been much better for us to have remained in Pennsylvania until the fall so as to have saved the Dutch farmers the trouble of gathering in their grain and also to have given our farmers an opportunity of harvesting uninterrupted…I was very well satisfied while in the enemy's country. I fared very well…I did not like the people, but as long as they would supply my wants they answered my purpose very well. The papers have all published an account of the battle of Gettysburg…it was the hottest artillery fight I have ever been in…there could [not] have been less than two huddled and fifty cannon firing at the same time. We opened on them with one hundred and twenty pieces…nearly every battery but ours suffered pretty heavily. I cannot account for it. The Battery on our left, Capt. Blount, not ten yards from us lost 7 men killed and wounded and the one on our right Capt. Macon lost several men. We had only two men very slightly wounded…and five horses killed…the shell come very near us, but…a "miss is as good as a mile." While riding over the field, late in the afternoon, after the fight I had my horse shot by one of the Yankee sharpshooters, but did not hurt him. It passed over his back and stung him enough to make him caper about at a great rate. No doubt he (my horse) thought he was badly wounded. During the fight on the 3rd (our day) we are said to have disabled a great many of the enemy's guns…as many as fifty. I saw four caissons…explode. We had quite a lively time of it while it lasted…our ammunition gave out in the hottest part of the battle. To that fact alone we owe our failure to gain one of the grandest victories of the war. We have a great many reports regarding the fall of Vicksburg. Some of the papers say it has fallen, others that it has not…I hope it has not surrendered…it certainly cannot hold out always…Johnston…does not render it any assistance…when it is certainly known that it has been captured it will have a very bad effect on our army…many men that I have heard speak of it say we might as well give up, that we are gone and…one cause was bound to fail. It makes me really angry to hear people speak in that manner (Camp at Bunker Hill, Frederick Co., VA, July 16, 1863).
Typical folds of the letters, some smudging of the ink, some letters have deeper toning than others.Condition
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