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Lot 1167:
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Charles Winn mustered into service December 7, 1861. Promoted from 1LT to CPT, February 11, 1862; to MAJ, May 21, 1864. Served in 58th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers CO G. The grouping was broken down by the consigner into approximately 56+/- pages of documents and letters w/covers. The number of individual documents is greater than that. Majority are official business docs between Winn, of CO G, 58th Pennsylvania Volunteers and dated between 1860 and 1864. Invoices, receipts listing issued equipment and soldier names in unit, along w/correspondence between personal friends like A.H. Seward [son of Lincoln’s Sec. of War, William H, Seward]. The letter that prompted that letter from Seward was a letter of recommendation for commission in Regular service of the Army to the Sec. of War from Andrew Gregg Curtin (April 22, 1815 – October 7, 1894) the 15th governor of Pennsylvania during the American Civil War, helped defend his state during the Gettysburg Campaign, and oversaw the creation of the National Cemetery and the ceremony in which Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address .Additionally, the letterhead stationery and destinations to/from used for some of these correspondence include: Foster US Army General Hospital; Assistant Quartermaster’s Office, Fort Monroe, VA; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania-House of Representatives; Treasury Dept-2nd Auditor’s Dept; Ordnance Office-Property Returns Division; Headquarters, 11th Division National Guard, Pennsylvania; War Dept-Records and Pension Office; Headquarters, 2nd Brigade 3rd Division 6th Corps; Headquarters, Pennsylvania Adjutant General’s Department. In the online unit history of the 58th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers it states: On the 18th of August company G, Captain Winn, was ordered to proceed by the Great Dismal Swamp Canal, to South Mills, North Carolina, near to one of the battlegrounds of Burnside, to break up a rendezvous of rebel recruits. Having accomplished its mission, it returned to camp without having encountered any hostile force. On the 11th of October, the regiment was ordered to Suffolk, where some fifteen thousand troops were encamped under command of General Peck. On the 24th the regiment made an expedition in company with the Ninety-ninth, One Hundred and Twelfth, and One Hundred and Thirty second New York, a battery and a regiment of New York mounted rifles, to the Black Water, meeting and skirmishing with the enemy at Zuni. Again, on the 12th of December, the regiment moved with an expedition to the Black Water, and in a skirmish which ensued two men in company C were wounded.
A few selections include:
#15-Preprinted letter to M.C. Meigs, Quartermaster General Washington D.C. marked “Official Business” containing “Return of clothing, Camp and Garrison Equipage for the 2nd quarter 1863.”
#16-Officers Hospital Middle Department. Leave of absence document June 27, 1864 for Charles A. Winn, Major. By order of the “Secretary of War” . Signed by William G. Ely ? Ely was a Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. He first served in the Union Army as a 1st Lieutenant and Regimental Commissary of Subsistence for the 1st Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. He was then promoted first to Lieutenant Colonel of the 6th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, then to Colonel and commander of the 18th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Volunteers on March 13, 1865 for “meritorious services during the war”.
#17-Several personal correspondences with greeting “Dear Brother” [4 total] one dated July 1, 1842 and another dated July 24, 1840; April 14, 18__; January 24, 1840. Sent to David H. Bishop of Missouri from Ebenezer? V___? from Unionville, SC.
#18-Form No. 7a dated 21 May, 1864. Invoice of returned equipment. Received” near Bermuda Hundred, VA”
#19-Voucher No. 3 Statement of Charges and Payrolls. 1864.
#29-Quarterly return of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores Co G, 58th Regiment June 30, 1864
#33-Civil War Clothing Allowance June 1863 For Troop With All Names 22” X 18”
#38-Penn House of Representatives letterhead. “Old Abe” regimental pet mentioned. Apr 25, 1864
#39-Penn House of Representatives letterhead. From Lucius Rogers. Dated April 22, 1864. Colonel, Company F, 58th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry (1861-1863, Civil War)
#41-Letter to Maj Winn from CPT CD Webster Fort Monroe, VA June 29, 1864.
#44-Letter of recommendation for commission in Regular Service of the Army to the Secretary of War from Andrew Gregg Curtin (April 22, 1815 – October 7, 1894) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the 15th governor of Pennsylvania[1] during the American Civil War,[2] helped defend his state during the Gettysburg Campaign, and oversaw the creation of the National Cemetery and the ceremony in which Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address.
#45- Letter to “Charley” from A.H. Seward [son of Lincoln’s Secretary of War William H, Seward] Dated Feb 25, 1863?
#47-Official notice of Death, PVT Alfred Weed, Co G, 58th PA Vols.
#51- Letter to Winn, dated Aug 30, 1864 from T. J Hoskinson? On Congressional letterhead. Company E of the Fifty-eighth was raised in McKean, Erie and Tioga counties. John C. Backus, the first captain, resigned February 12, 1863, and in March Lieut. T. J. Hoskinson was promoted, but resigned September 9, 1864, when Capt. Philetus M. Fuller succeeded, and served until muster-out, January 24, 1866.
A wonderful collection of wartime correspondences and documents and a great resource for historians and collectors alike. Additionally, there is a multi-page breakdown of the documents from the consigner that significantly adds to its historical impact.
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