War-dated ALS in pencil signed “C. A. Macy, Jr.,” four pages, lightly-lined on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, embossed letterhead, July 8, 1863. Macy writes his father from Camp near Frederick, Md., Headquarters 7th Regt. NYNG, 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Corps. in part: “We are now regularly attached to the Army of the Potomac, in the 3rd Corps, Jno. & D. Havilly’s old Corps…We are now seeing a part of the war which but a few have before experienced. We have no tents. Some of the boys have built huts of straw & covered them with straw & their blankets, but they leak very much…The 12th Corps have been passing this morning…some on the Harpers Ferry & some on the Hagerstown Road…We have most been over to see the spy RIchardson who was hung night before last. His body is hanging on the tree yet, was to hang 48 hours altogether.” In fine condition, with light creasing. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope, addressed in Macy’s hand. RRAuction COA.
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