50 items. Ricketts’ Battery of the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery was an active unit during the Civil War, serving in the heat of the eastern theatre. Raised in August 1861, the battery served in Maryland during the early months of the war, followed by duty in the Shenandoah Valley, Second Bull Run, and Chancellorsville, among other engagements, before making their famous stand against the all-out assault of the Louisiana Tigers on Cemetery Hill during the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. They used artillery ram rods to defend their battery and helped drive the Confederates back. Consisting almost entirely of manuscript documents with a few printed forms complete in manuscript, this collection contains an interesting assortment of items ranging from orders to report for duty or recruiting service, to orders detailing soldiers for special duty and assigning surplus men in the regiment to the 1st Rhode Island Artillery and finally to an assortment of monthly and quarterly returns for stores, clothing, and equipage. Among the interesting details revealed are notes (included with Ricketts’ property accounts) reporting the death of two horses and the wearing out of whips -- he neither confirms nor denies that these facts are related. The collection also includes three very uncommon printed forms from the Adjutant General’s office notifying Ricketts that no final statement had been received for three deceased soldiers -- a sad byproduct of the often-chaotic record keeping during the war that left countless deaths and injuries unreported. Finally the collection includes a fascinating letter from a lieutenant in the Ricketts’ Battery requesting that the Captain lobby the governor to retain the regiment’s officers. Word had apparently been received that the regiment had been maligned by an interested party who made statement, as I understand it, to the Governor that field officers were no longer needed in Army... and the writer asked Ricketts to refute there malevolent aspersions. Expected wear and age toning, but a nice collection offering insight into the evolving recordkeeping of the Civil War.
50 items. Ricketts’ Battery of the 1st Pennsylvania Light Artillery was an active unit during the Civil War, serving in the heat of the eastern theatre. Raised in August 1861, the battery served in Maryland during the early months of the war, followed by duty in the Shenandoah Valley, Second Bull Run, and Chancellorsville, among other engagements, before making their famous stand against the all-out assault of the Louisiana Tigers on Cemetery Hill during the second day of the Battle of Gettysburg. They used artillery ram rods to defend their battery and helped drive the Confederates back. Consisting almost entirely of manuscript documents with a few printed forms complete in manuscript, this collection contains an interesting assortment of items ranging from orders to report for duty or recruiting service, to orders detailing soldiers for special duty and assigning surplus men in the regiment to the 1st Rhode Island Artillery and finally to an assortment of monthly and quarterly returns for stores, clothing, and equipage. Among the interesting details revealed are notes (included with Ricketts’ property accounts) reporting the death of two horses and the wearing out of whips -- he neither confirms nor denies that these facts are related. The collection also includes three very uncommon printed forms from the Adjutant General’s office notifying Ricketts that no final statement had been received for three deceased soldiers -- a sad byproduct of the often-chaotic record keeping during the war that left countless deaths and injuries unreported. Finally the collection includes a fascinating letter from a lieutenant in the Ricketts’ Battery requesting that the Captain lobby the governor to retain the regiment’s officers. Word had apparently been received that the regiment had been maligned by an interested party who made statement, as I understand it, to the Governor that field officers were no longer needed in Army... and the writer asked Ricketts to refute there malevolent aspersions. Expected wear and age toning, but a nice collection offering insight into the evolving recordkeeping of the Civil War.
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