Here is a neat group of items from a Maryland solder, John H. Helgoth. Helgoth served in the Maryland 2nd Potomac Home Brigade, enlisting in August 1861. He re-enlisted as a veteran volunteer on March 7, 1864 and was wounded in action at Lynchburg, Virginia on June 18, 1864. He was mustered out of service on May 29, 1865. This group consists of a tintype image of Helgoth and three letters. The cased image is the 6th plate size that measures 3.2" x 3.75" and Helgoth is posed seated dressed in his uniform holding a revolver across his lap. You can tell by the breech of the gun that it is a long barrel Allen & Wheelock side hammer revolver. This gun is scarce and an image of a soldier holding one is even tougher to find. The image is nice and clear with sold old bends to the tin. There are stripes on his cuffs indicating he is a veteran, which would date the image to mid-1864 to 1865. Together with three war-dated letters to his aunt Mary Harmon. Letters vary in size and are all written from New Creek, Virginia. Two of the letters are undated, but one has content regarding his re-enlistment, circa March 1864. This letter reads in part: "...We ar looking et fight here. i don't know wheather the rebles is coming to New Creek or not. I have inlisted in the vetting rigment. I don't know if the rigment will or not, but I think that they will all inlist as most of them of hold the old origination and i think that we will git a furlo the first of April..." All three letters are accompanied by their original postal covers. You get this cool tintype as well as all three of the letters!

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