Lot 3220
Battle of Shiloh, Letter from Thomas Long, State Sanitary Agent in St. Louis, to Adjutant General Baker, re: the wounded arriving from Pittsburgh Landing (1st Battle of Shiloh), "The Louisiana arrived this A.M. with 400 sick & wounded, the Imperial to day with 350, & the Empress will arrive to morrow with another load…" he solicits funds and provisions to care for them, notes that citizen volunteers will nurse them. On an attractively Everett House hotel letterhead, May 4, 1862, Very Fine. Estimate $100 - 150
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Realized $110 |