Lot 374
Gettysburg Letter By A Confederate In the 1st Maryland Battalion. G.G. Guillette, 1st Sgt. and 2nd Lt. in Co. G, 2nd Md. Infantry, 1st Md. Battalion, writes a letter to Fred, 2 pp (one sheet), 8"x5", "Hd. Qtrs. Army Northern Va., Camp near Dartsville, July 19th, 1863." In part: "…we have had a brilliant campaign…fought one of the hardest battles of the war in which we gained a complete victory. But the Yankees say that they gained a victory if so why do they admit of so great a loss, for ours is not one 4th what they admit that they loss. Our Battal. was in the hottest of the fight and we made a charge in which …poor Whit fell wounded but I hope not mortaly we could not get him from the field. The Battle lasted for 3 days and we drove them from there bristworks every day for if you drove them from one they were sure to build annother at night. There loss was immense if there victory were such as what they claim they will have no army soon if such fights hapen often. You will say …why does not Gill write more but he is afraid that it will fall into the hand of the enemy…." Guillette was captured in the fighting on the Weldon Railroad in Virginia in August 1864. Accompanied by the consignor's research on this unit.
Estimated Value $2,000 - 3,000.
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