Auction # 58 - Winter 2014 Auction

Battery "K", 1st Conn. Siege Artillery. Capt. John W. Twiss. Illustrated patriotic design showing Cannon on cover bearing 1861, 3¢ rose, minor perf flaws, tied by Washington D.C. duplex to Ansonia Conn., original enclosure datelined "Front of Petersburg Va. Jany 31st 65"; reduced slightly at right, Fine and very rare design.
Scott No. 65; Estimate $200 - 300.

Letter with interesting war content, "I think this peace movement is only a hoax but as soon as the Spring and Summer Campaigns commence it will be the most desperate of the war if there is as many butchered as last Summer indeed. the need not boast of going to clear Maxamelian out of Mexico the deserters that come in think the war played out but you cannot ever believe a deserter from either sides. any of the union men that are catched deserting he is finished of with Old abes pattent neck-lase or a dozen bullets sent throug him as he sets on his Coffin…".