Lot of 3 items relating to Jacob Rapp, 150th New York Volunteers, including a quarter plate tintype and 2pp war-date letter accompanied by the original cover. Tintype is a full-length portrait of Rapp posed in front of a military camp backdrop and armed with a rare two-band musket; housed under a brass mat but uncased. Letter is 2pp, 4.875 x 8 in., on stationery imprinted with a short poem honoring soldiers, dated at Camp Belger, Baltimore, December 19, 1862, addressed to Dear Friend (John N.) Cramer, located in Rapp's hometown of Rhinebeck, NY. In part: ...You said in your letter that we have to whip the South but I think now we can't do it by fighting....General Wool was here yesterday and we had a Grand Revue before him....I felt bad when McClellan left the Army, but now I am all right again.....The Poughkeepsie ladies sent 500 pair of gloves to our Regiment and they was received very thankful....At home I weight one hundred forty seven pound and now I weigh one hundred sixty five... Accompanying cover is also imprinted with a patriotic image and poem. Rapp was 34 years old when he enlisted in Rhinebeck on September 5, 1862, mustering into Co. K, 150th New York Infantry, as a Private. He is listed as having deserted February 7, 1863, from Camp Belger, but records of the 97th New York state that a man of the same name and age enlisted at Geddo, NY, in August of 1863, and served through the end of the war. Condition: Very good.
Lot of 3 items relating to Jacob Rapp, 150th New York Volunteers, including a quarter plate tintype and 2pp war-date letter accompanied by the original cover. Tintype is a full-length portrait of Rapp posed in front of a military camp backdrop and armed with a rare two-band musket; housed under a brass mat but uncased. Letter is 2pp, 4.875 x 8 in., on stationery imprinted with a short poem honoring soldiers, dated at Camp Belger, Baltimore, December 19, 1862, addressed to Dear Friend (John N.) Cramer, located in Rapp's hometown of Rhinebeck, NY. In part: ...You said in your letter that we have to whip the South but I think now we can't do it by fighting....General Wool was here yesterday and we had a Grand Revue before him....I felt bad when McClellan left the Army, but now I am all right again.....The Poughkeepsie ladies sent 500 pair of gloves to our Regiment and they was received very thankful....At home I weight one hundred forty seven pound and now I weigh one hundred sixty five... Accompanying cover is also imprinted with a patriotic image and poem. Rapp was 34 years old when he enlisted in Rhinebeck on September 5, 1862, mustering into Co. K, 150th New York Infantry, as a Private. He is listed as having deserted February 7, 1863, from Camp Belger, but records of the 97th New York state that a man of the same name and age enlisted at Geddo, NY, in August of 1863, and served through the end of the war. Condition: Very good.
Testen Sie LotSearch und seine Premium-Features 7 Tage - ohne Kosten!
Lassen Sie sich automatisch über neue Objekte in kommenden Auktionen benachrichtigen.
Suchauftrag anlegen