An extensive and detailed archive of the 30th Illinois that includes the diary and four years of letters of David W. Poak, as well as the diary of his regimental colleague Edward Grow. Lot includes: 

 

1. Archive of 64 autograph letters signed by David W. Poak, 30th Illinois Infantry, to his sister Sarah J. "Sadie" Poak. Various places, September 1861 - 25 March 1865. Approx. 266 pages; 8vo, 4to, & folio. Many with envelopes. A complete and detailed list of letters is available.

 

2. Daily Journal of D.W. Poak Company “A” 30th Ill Infty. Manuscript diary. 24 January - 29 April 1863. 66 numbered pages, large 8vo, 5 ⅜ x 8 ¼ in. Original cardstock boards. Covers detached, lacking spine, separation of gatherings. Inscribed “Bought in the City of Memphis Jany 28th 1863”.

 

3. Manuscript diary by Edward Grow, Co. A, 30th Illinois Infantry. 24 November 1862-25 February 1863. Approximately 115 pages, 12mo. Original cardstock boards. Chipping, occasional loose pages. 

 

4. Matthew Anderson, editor. “Dear Sister Sadie” The Letters of David W. Poak, 30th Illinois Infantry during the Civil War. Also the DIary of Edward Grow and Letters of Henry M. McLain. [North Charleston, South Carolina]: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing], 2013. Heavily annotated. Includes transcriptions of letters and diaries, as well as additional letters and documents not included here. Please refer to the complete list of included letters. 

 

David W. Poak (1842-1879) enlisted as a sergeant on 12 August 1861 and was mustered into Company A at the end of the month. He wrote frequently to his sister, Sarah J. "Sadie" Poak (1841-1919), throughout his entire enlistment, detailing the military campaign but also adding his observations of camp life and the Southern populace, including slaves, contraband, and Black troops.

 

The letter archive begins right after the regiment left Camp Butler and formally mustered into Federal Service. He noted in his first letter in September 1861 that “Defeaning cheers greeted us all along our way.” Once in Cairo, he marvels that “it looks a good deal like war to see the banks of the river bursting with batteries all ready for action in a moment.”

 

Poak was evidently thought of very highly by his fellow soldiers, though was often reluctant of the great responsibility that high rank held. In his first letter of September 1862, he shares that he is “first Sergeant after the Orderly. They ran me for Orderly and had quite an exciting election. The ones that knew the other man voted for him and every one that knew me for me. He got 43 votes and me 41. I did not want the office for it is the hardest office in the Company.”

 

Despite his reservations, he was promoted to Orderly Sergeant (Fort Donelson, Tennessee, 28 February 1862) and even briefly served as Captain of Company A. In his 10 May 1862 letter from Camp Stanton, he writes “Our Capt. is promoted to Major of our regiment and I have been chosen Capt. of our company…I fear that it is going to be [too] responsible a position for me as you know I am very young the great portion of the company being much older than me, but the company seem to have confidence in me and I will do the best I can.” His doubts win out, however, as he tempers his sister's enthusiasm and informs her that he turned down the position. 

 

On 15 September 1862, he was again faced with command: “Our Captain’s resignation has been accepted and he has gone home leaving me in command of the company. The Boys all treat me well and obey all orders I give promptly. I don’t think I have any enemies in the company.” Again, however, he relinquished the role, writing on 21 January 1863 from Memphis: “I must confess I feel a heavy weight taken off me since he assumed command of the company. When I was in command of the company I did not have any peace of mind at all. Not that the company was hard to govern or that they did not obey me promptly, but there was so much responsibility resting upon me that I could not but think of it.”

 

Early in the 30th Illinois’s campaign, they encountered constant skirmishing. In a letter addressed to his Aunts on 7 November 1862, he writes: “Our cavalry and some of the rebel cavalry had a skirmish yesterday about 8 miles from this place. The result was a rebel skedaddle.”

 

One of the first major battles that the 30th engaged in was at Champion’s Hill on 16 May 1863, on the way to the Siege of Vicksburg. After the Siege, Poak revisited the battlefield in July 1863. In one of the most eloquent passages penned by Poak, he describes the scene and soldier graves: “I rode all over the contested ground and found many things that looked very natural besides many marks that showed plainly how stubbornly the place was contested. In one grave I saw 8 of our Regt buried while in another just alongside were several others buried with members of the 34th Indiana Regiment. It was at this point of the field that our Regiment lost most heavily…Our soldiers that were killed there were very neatly buried but I am sorry to say that the Rebel dead were very carelessly interred. I saw one place where 50 of them…had been thrown into a ditch and some dirt thrown over them. The heavy rains since that time have washed away the dirt and now their remains lie bleaching under the scorching rays of a southern sun.” (Camp 30th Ill Infty., Near Jackson, Mississippi, 13 & 16 July 1863.)

 

In early 1863, the regiment moved to Vicksburg to participate in the siege. Poak wrote of the preparations, especially cutting Grant's Canal to connect the Red River with Lake Providence and the Mississippi in order to bypass Confederate batteries, noting that “ some two hundred Negroes or Americans of African descent were digging the canal.” (Diary, Camp at Lake Providence, 25 February 1863). 

 

In a letter to Sadie on 28 June 1863 from camp near Vicksburg, he recounts some of his regiment’s actions at the Siege, including a clever use of cotton bales: “All the protection we had was five cotton bales which we moved ahead as we advanced. Moving these was the most unpleasant job of all as the ground over which we had to move them was so rough and steep that some were obliged to expose themselves to keep the bales from rolling calendar out of our reach and when a man got high enough above the cotton bale to be seen by the rebels he was treated to some Minnie balls some of which came [too] close to be agreeable.” In the same letter, he continues with an amusing tale of camaraderie across enemy lines: “In the evening some of our Boys and the rebs got to talking back and forth when finally they agreed to lay down their arms and meet each other between the two lines. Some five or six Rebs came out and about an equal number of our Boys went out and met them. They talked together about an hour when our Boys were ordered back into the rifle pits and the Rebs were back to theirs. I have often heard about the pickets of battle sides meeting and talking but I never saw them do it before.” 

 

After the victory at Vicksburg, he wrote home on 10 July 1863: “Viz (to soon be electrified by the news of the surrender of Vicksburg) as you are doubtless aware that that famous rebel stronghold with its entire garrison and implements of war is now and has been in our possession for several days.“ After speculating on the number of prisoners taken, he praises the army’s leadership: “But I really do think that our campaign has not been equaled during the war and I think that Gen Grant has shown great ability to handle a large army. For during our march from Grand Gulf to Vicksburg the different Army Corps were on different roads and they appeared to move as regular as clock work. Every Corps and every Division appeared to come up at just the right time and at the right place.”

 

After Vicksburg, Poak writes in eloquent detail of a remarkable moment where the Union and Confederate armies meet while on the march: “From Black River was one of the most novel spectacles of the war. The two great armies that had so lately met in the terrible shock of battle, marched out side by side, the one with quick elastic step, buoyant & flushed with victory. The other pale and dejected & humiliated by defeat. The one with bright uniforms, banners floating to the breeze, music playing, bayonets glittering in the sun. The other clothes in rags and stripped of all their paraphernalia of war. Their officer and men and ours mingled freely together. They acknowledged the genius of Grant and the bravery and perseverance of his army but warned us that the “Last Ditch” that ever receding point of rebel desperation was awaiting us in Jackson. We traveled together until we came to Edwards Station when they took the road leading to Raymond and we continued on our way into this direction.” (Camp 30th Ill Infty., Near Jackson, Mississippi, 13 & 16 July 1863)

 

The 30th Illinois would continue under General Sherman, eventually joining the Atlanta Campaign. Writing from Alabama on 8 June 1864: “After a march of 22 days since leaving Clifton Tenn. we this evening reached the rear of the grand army under Gen. Sherman. We are camped on the extreme left tonight and I believe it is the intention for us to occupy this position in the advance on Atlanta…Our advance is from 6 to 8 miles of ‘Marietta.” He continues with his admiration for Sherman and his tactics: “From what I can learn Sherman has been handling his Army in fine style. It is evident to even a paper boy that he has out maneuvered his opponent else he could not driven him from as many strong positions with as small a loss as he has had. The country is admirably adapted to defense and they have some very strong fortifications but they have left them now. It is said that if driven from their present position at Marietta they will have no other positions that are naturally as strong as those they have already left.”;

 

It was during the Atlanta Campaign that Poak was recognized for his "gallant conduct" on 22 July 1864. He received a letter from Major General Francis P. Blair, who awarded him a silver Medal of Honor recognizing that "when his regiment was forced from its position he was conspicuous in rallying the men advancing to the front encouraging his men firing muskets rapidly at the enemy and by his service and gallant example materially assisting in bringing his Regiment again into action." (Letter not included). 

 

Poak’s letters continue throughout the Atlanta campaign, concluding in Savannah, Georgia, on Christmas Eve 1864, where he reports on the Confederates’ evacuation via pontoon bridge: “The Rebels evacuated on the night of Dec. 20 and we moved in and took possession on the morning of the 21st. The Rebels threw a pontoon bridge across the Savannah River and by means of it succeeded in crossing over into South Carolina. Had they remained two days longer we would have charged their works.”

 

His final letter is written from Goldsboro, North Carolina, on 25 March 1865, after a long march, where he reports on the weary state of his army: “They will be compelled to remain long enough to refit our army as it is now in a very destitute condition. A great many of the men are barefooted and without pants. Many of them have been forced to pick up and wear citizen or rebel clothes to cover up their nakedness. Our Campaign has been, in many respects one of the most severe we have ever made.”

 

While the diaries and Poak’s letters certainly provide an excellent account of the 30th Illinois’s campaign, they are also invaluable for their eloquent insights to a more complete understanding of camp life and the local populations of the South - loyalists, secessionists, and the enslaved. 

 

Poak writes candidly to his sister about some of the more colorful behavior in the camp. He reports on 21 September 1861 that their Captain “has prohibited card playing and drinking among his men. We have a sermon every Sunday morning by the chaplain. We have worship before going to bed in several of the tents and blessing asked before every meal.” Despite the Captain’s rules, however, Poak reports “considerable excitement in camp caused by the breaking up of several gambling parties. There have been a party playing a game called Chuck A-Luck and have been drawing a great many of the boys in and have been taking their money from them by the wholesale. Today the officers arrested some of the leaders and have them marching around camp under guard with a barrel over them on the outside of which is printed in Large letters “Chuck-A-Luck Banker” while the band follows after and plays the rogue’s march. This appears like a hard punishment but I think their conduct merited it.” (Camp near Corinth, [Mississippi], 2 June 1862). 

 

Edward Grow recounts a bawdy scene in his entry on 21 February 1863, “A certain man of our Regt feeling a little lustful employed another man to bring on board and put in his room a female that he might enjoy the pleasures of a companion. Accordingly about dark came in the man with his bird and per contract placed her in room No 3 the Major of our Regt soon found it out and had the guards placed her Ladyship on the street.” 

 

Poak managed to maintain his good health throughout his enlistment, though he often commented on the general well-being of the regiment. He writes of receiving a vaccination in his diary entry on 27 February 1863: “This afternoon was vaccinated by Dr. Mayfield for Small Pox. A member of company “D” of our regt is sick with that disease at present. It will be a horrible thing should it break out into our army to much extent.” (Camp at Lake Providence). 

 

In a letter written aboard the transport steamer Planet on 23 April 1862, Poak notes with a good deal of surprise of the citizens of Dover, Tennessee: “the citizens cheered us, waved their handkerchiefs, and gave us their best wishes for our future success. They all hated to see us leave. They said if all our soldiers were like our regt. They were deceived about the Yankees and acknowledged that we behaved much better than their own soldiers…The Union feeling appeared quite strong as at nearly every house along the way we were cheered and at a great many the Union flag was flung out.” Just a few months later he reports in Jackson, Tennessee, on 12 June 1862, that “the citizens are all secesh of the rankest kind,” all of whom were later compelled to take an oath of allegiance.

 

The complexity of loyalties continued to be seen during the 30th Illinois’s campaign, from resting at the plantation of a “rabid secessionist” on 17 August 1862 to meeting an “old grey bearded man sat on the fence waving the stars and stripes to let us know he was a Union man.” (Edward Grow diary, La Grange, Tennessee, 11 December 1862).

 

An unusual encounter at Fort Jefferson, Kentucky, is illustrative of Kentucky’s unique position as both a Union state and a slave state: “There are two families live right in the middle of our camp. One of them has some slaves but both he and his negroes say he is a union man. His slaves think a great deal of him. They are well clothed and appear to enjoy themselves well.” (12 January 186[2]).

 

In his diary entry from Camp at Lake Providence on 5 March 1863, he remarks on the abandoned plantations, writing partially in dialect: “The Plantations are very large some of them containing 3000 acres and appear to have recently been in a high state of cultivation but now everything looks barren. Of the perhaps four or six hundred Negroes which the owners of these lately had around them none are now left except a few old men and some of the women + children. The rest either having gone to work for “Uncle Jeff” or become the adopted sons and daughters of “Col Lincum” (as the Negroes call him).” 

 

He also recounts a meeting with an “old negro” who claimed to be 111: “He is a rather smart old fellow, is very communicative and takes great pleasure in talking to the Yankees. He says he was born in Maryland, saw Washington’s Army frequently during the Revolutionary War and never sick a day in his life.” (Camp near Richmond, Louisiana, 25 & 26 April 1863 with Camp in Field 3 miles from Black River, Mississippi, 4 May 1863).

 

Throughout the war, when slaves were able to run away or self-emancipate, they would often make their way to Union army camps where they were initially employed in support roles. Poak writes on 17 August 1862 that his company “have got one of the best negro cooks I ever saw. He is an excellent cook and besides that he carries all the water we want and goes out three miles into the country and brings in fruit. Several of the other messes have negroes but I think ours is the best in the Regt.” (Camp near Estanaula, Tennessee, 17 August 1862). 

 

Despite Poak’s positive interactions with many former slaves and his praise of the cook, however, Poak reveals harsh attitudes. “The negroes in camp are used when there is any fatigue duty to be performed so that our soldiers are spared from a great deal of labor that they were [formerly] compelled to do. I do not like the negroes by any means but if there is anything they can do that will leave a soldier in the ranks I am in favor of using them. But if the rebellion can never be crushed without arming them, if we cannot raise enough of white men in the North to fight our battles for us. I say let the South secede and joy go with them.“ (Camp near Estanaula, [Tennessee], 28 August 1862.)

 

Poak also includes some details regarding African American troops. In his diary on 11 April 1863, he remarks that “This morning at an election of the Officers of our Regt to appoint officers for the Negro Regts.” ([Camp Logan], Louisiana). And he also includes some details of the Battle of Milliken’s Bend: “Quite a little fight occurred [at] Milliken’s Bend a few days since, between rebel cavalry and some white and some negro troops on our side. The Negroes it is said, fought well but were over powered and driven back to the river bank where our Gunboats stopped the further progress of the rebs. I have not heard what troops were engaged on our side either of white or black.” (Camp 30th Ill. Infty. Near Vicksburg, Mississippi, 12 June 1863). 

 

After the war, Poak briefly returned to Illinois before moving to the newly incorporated town of Pleasanton, Kansas where he became a school director and elected the town's first mayor on 25 October 1870. By 1872, he had moved to Bonham, Texas, working as a cashier, before finally settling in Sherman, Texas in 1876 where he was a bank vice president. He returned to his home state of Pennsylvania near the end of his life where he died of consumption on 27 Mary 1879. 

 

A truly remarkable account of a regiment's campaign in the Western Theater with excellent and well-written accounts of all aspects of war. 

 

Complete List of Included Letters

 

1. Camp Defiance, Sept. 1861. 5 pages, 8vo. 

2. Camp McClernand [near Cairo, Illinois], 13 September 1861. 4 pages, 8vo. 

3. Camp McClernand [near Cairo, Illinois], 21 September 1861. 4 pages, 8vo, on illustrated “Emblem of our Nations Liberty Still hover over us” letterhead. With envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp.

4. Camp McClernand  Cairo, [Illinois], 23 September 1861. 4 pages, 8vo, on illustrated “Then conquer we must…” letterhead. With envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp.

5. Camp McClernand, Cairo, [Illinois], 23 September 1861. 4 pages, 4to (losses on old fold, possibly corresponding to where the envelope had been opened). With fully illustrated blue “The Loyal States / Illinois / Union” cover by Reatles & Co. with Cairo cancel (portion excised). 

6. Camp McClernand, near Cairo, [Illinois], 23 September 1861. 4 pages, 4to. With illustrated “Tis the flag of the free, We’ll ever defend it” cover with Mount Jackson, PA cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

7. Camp McClernand [near Cairo, Illinois], 30 November 1861. 4 pages, 4to. (Book incorrectly transcribes date as 20 November; ink faint, small separations along old folds).

8. Camp McClernand [near Cairo, Illinois], 21 December 1861. 4 pages, wide 8vo. 

9. Camp McClernand, [near Cairo, Illinois], 9 January 186[2]. 2 pages, 4to. With original envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp.

10. Fort Jefferson, Kentucky, 12 January 186[2]. 5 pages, wide 8vo. Poak misdates the year at 1861. With original yellow envelope with “Wyor” cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

11. Fort Donelson, Tennessee, 28 February 1862. 3 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp.

12. On board Transport Steamer Planet, 23 April [1862]. 4 pages, 4to. 

13. Camp in the Field, [near Corinth, Mississippi], 9 May 1862. 2 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

14. Headquarters Camp Stanton, 30th Reg’t. Ill Vols, Comp. A, 10 May 1862. 4 pages, 8vo, on illustrated “Indiana” letterhead. With original yellow envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

15. Camp in the Field, [near Corinth, Mississippi], 23 May 1862. 4 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

16. Camp in Field, [near Corinth, Mississippi], 30 May 1862. 4 pages, 4to. 

17. Camp near Corinth, [Mississippi], 2 June 1862.  4 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with indiscernible cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

18. Jackson, Tennessee, 12 June 1862. 4 pages, 4to. With original envelope with indiscernible cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

19. Jackson, Tennessee, 26 June 1862. 4 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp.

20. LaGrange, Tennessee, 30 June 1862. 4 pages, 8vo, on illustrated patriotic letterhead. With original yellow envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

21. Jackson, Tennessee, 14 July 1862. 5 pages, 8vo, on “Honor to the Brave” illustrated letterhead. With original “Liberty and Union.” illustrated cover with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

22. Camp near Estanaula, Tennessee, 17 August 1862. 4 pages, folio. With original yellow envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

23. Camp near Estanaula, [Tennessee], 28 August 1862. 4 pages, 4to. 

24. Jackson, Tennessee, 15 September 1862. 4 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

25. R.R. Bridge near Humboldt, [Tennessee], 14 October 1862. 4 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Cairo and Mount Jackson, PA cancels and two red 3-cent stamps. 

26. Jackson, Tennessee, 30 October 1862. 4 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp.     

27. To Aunts. La Grange, Tennessee, 7 November 1862. 4 pages, 4to. 

28. Camp at La Grange, Tennessee, 10 November 1862. 4 pages, 4to.

29. La Grange, Tennessee, 24 November 1862. 4 pages, 4to. 

30. Holly Springs, Mississippi, 30 November 1862. 3 pages, 4to. Lower portion of 2nd leaf excised. 

31. Camp in Field, [Mississippi]. 13 December 1862. 4 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

32. Camp near Davis Mill, Mississippi, 8 January 186[3]. 4 pages, 4to, misdated as 1862, possibly missing pages as letter ends abruptly. With original yellow envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

33. Camp of 30th Ill Infty, Memphis, [Tennessee], 21 January 1863. 8 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Memphis cancel and red 3-cent stamp.

34. Camp 30th Ill. Infy., Near Memphis, [Tennessee], 11 February 1863. 4 pages, folio. 

35. Lake Providence, Louisiana, 24 February 1863. 6 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

36. Camp of 30th Ill. Infy. Lake Providence, Louisiana, 1 March 1863. 5 pages, 4to + fragment. With original yellow envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp. With original yellow envelope with Memphis cancel and red 3-cent stamp.

37. On board Steamer Fanny Ogden, Eagles Bend, Mississippi, 23 March 1863. 5 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Memphis cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

38. Berry’s Landing, Louisiana, 30 March 1863. 4 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Memphis cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

39. Camp Logan, Louisiana, 14 April 1863. 3 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Memphis cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

40. Camp near Richmond, Louisiana, 25 & 26 April 1863 WITH Camp in Field 3 miles from Black River, Mississippi, 4 May 1863. 8 pages, 4to. With original envelope with Memphis cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

41. Camp 30th Ill. Infty. Near Vicksburg, Mississippi, 12 June 1863. 4 pages, 8vo. With original yellow envelope with Memphis(?) cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

42. Camp in field 14 miles from Vicksburg, [Mississippi], 28 June 1863. 4 pages, folio. 

43. Camp at Bovina, Mississippi, 10 July 1863. 6 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with indiscernible cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

44. Camp 30th Ill Infty., Near Jackson, Mississippi, 13 & 16 July 1863. 6 pages, 4to, With original envelope with partial indiscernible cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

45. Vicksburg, Mississippi, 28 July 1863. 4 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Memphis cancel and two red 3-cent stamps. Some losses from opening.  

46. Head Quarters 30th Ill Infy. Vols., Vicksburg, Mississippi, 20 October 1863. 4 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Vicksburg cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

47. Head Quarters 30th Ill Infy, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 29 October 1863. 4 pages, 4to. 

48. Head Quarters 30th Ill Infy, Vicksburg, Mississippi, 7 & 9 November [1863]. 4 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Vicksburg cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

49. Head Qrs. 30th Ill Infy. Vicksburg, Mississippi, 3 January 1864. 4 pages, 8vo. 

50. Head Qrs. 30th Ill Infy. Vicksburg, Mississippi, n.d. January 1864. 3 pages, 8vo. 

51. Hd. Qrs. 30th Ill. Infy. Vicksburg, Mississippi, 7 January 186[4]. 6 pages, 8vo. Misdated as 1863. 

52. Hd. Qrs. 30th Ill. Infy. Vicksburg, Mississippi, 17 January 1864. 8 pages, 8vo. With original yellow envelope with Vicksburg cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

53. Head Quarters. 30th Ill. Infy. Vicksburg, Mississippi, 26 January 1864. 4 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Vicksburg cancel and red 3-cent stamp.

54. Hd. Qrs. 30th Ill. Infy. Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1 February 1864. 3 pages, 4to. 

55. Hd. Qrs. 30th Ill. Infy. On Board Str. Gladiator, 10 March 1864. 1 page, 4to, postscript to verso. With original yellow envelope with Cairo cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

56. Aledo, Mercer Co., Illinois, 24 March 1864. 3 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Aledo cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

57. Head Quarters 30th Ill Infy, Camp Butler, Illinois, 16 April 1864. 4 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with two Springfield, IL cancels and two red 3-cent stamps. 

58. Head Qrs. 30th Ill. Infy, Athens, Alabama, 11 May 1864. 6 pages, 8vo. With original envelope with Jackson cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

59. Head Quarters 30th Ill. Infy., Huntsville, Alabama, 21 May 1864. 4 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Jackson cancel and two red 3-cent stamps. 

60. Head Qrs. 30th Ills. Infy., Huntsville, Alabama, 23 May 1864. 3 pages, 8vo. 

61. Hd. Qrs. 30th Ill Infy, In Field, Alabama, 8 June 1864. 3 pages, 4to. 

62. Hd Quarters 1 Brig 3rd Div 17th A[rmy] C[orps], One Little River, Georgia, 22 October 1864. 2 pages, 4to. With original yellow envelope with Chattanooga(?) cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

63. Head Qrs. 1st Brig, 3rd Div. 1st A[rmy] C[orps], Savannah, Georgia, 24 December 1864. 4 pages, 4to. With original envelope with New York cancel and red 3-cent stamp. 

64. Head Quarters 1st Brig, 3rd Div., 17th A.C., Goldsboro, North Carolina, 25 March 1865. 4 pages, 8vo. 

 

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Occasional toning, small separations or losses along old folds. A complete condition report is available upon request.