Lot Details
Lot 14
[Civil War] Chase, Arthur L.
Collection of twelve autograph letters signed, together forty-four pages, 4to and 8vo, 30 November 1861-15 December 1862, Camp Stoneman, Lockport, U.S. Hospital Baltimore, Fort Federal Hill, to "Dear Brother," George Chase. Accompanied by, Elwood, John, document signed, one page, oblong 4to, Washington, 31 March 1862, discharge for Arthur L. Chase from 7th Regiment of New York State Volunteer Cavalry, having enlisted on 7 September 1861; Magmin, James, document signed, one page, 4to, Lockport, New York, 21 July 1862, volunteer enlistment for Arthur L. Chase; French, E.B., document signed, one page, 4to, Washington, 8 May 1865, enclosing $98.40 to Samuel S. Chase, father of Arthur L. Chase, as payment for wages earned prior to his death on 7 June 1864. (15)
According to Chase's second enlistment document, he was a druggist by trade and was 18 at the time of his first enlistment. He left the 7th Regiment of the N.Y.S.V. Cavalry because "said Regiment [was] being mustered out of the service of the United States." When he reenlisted four months later, his mother signed consent because Chase was still a minor. In his letters to his brother, Chase reveals the activities of camp life and reports his movements. Certain reconnaisance missions present themselves to Chase: "chance yesterday to go with the grand expedition up James River." By 28 August 1862, Chase moved to guard the hospital in Baltimore and shortly moved to Federal Hill. On 18 September 1862, he writes: "last week we expected that we should have the pleasure of exchanging a few shots with Stonewall Jackson but Gen. McClellan has blocked him for the present... Two companies of our Regt. have gone to Philadelphia with prisoners taken at Harper's Ferry." On 15 December 1862, he writes, "There has been a hard fight at Fredericksburgh and there has been some talk of our joining Banks division."
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