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"The flags flutter and snap, the sunlight flashes from the officer's swords, low words of command are heard, and thus in perfect order, this gallant array of gallant men marches straight down into the valley of Death!" Randolph Abbott Shotwell, 8th Virginia Infantry, describing Pickett's Charge.

ON SALE! WAS $10.00! Late Civil War original manuscript document! Even day to day seemingly mundane chores required paperwork!! This request for posts and 10,000 shingles is dated March 20th, 1865. Signed on reverse by G. (George) G. Nichols. CONDITION: On lined paper, with one small hole. Other minor signs of age. (#462)

NOTES: 4th Regiment, Massachusetts Heavy Artillery - Organized November l2, 1864, by consolidation of the 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th Unattached Companies Heavy Artillery. Organized August, 1864, for one year's service. Consolidated to a Regiment November 12, 1864. Attached to 3rd Brigade, DeRussy's Division, 22nd Army Corps, Dept. of Washington. Garrison duty in the Defences of Washington, south of the Potomac, till June, 1865. Mustered out June 17, 1865. Lost during service 2 Officers and 23 Enlisted men by disease. Total 25.

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