[SUPERB AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM SURGEON EDWARD ALDRICH TO HIS SISTER-IN-LAW, GIVING A FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF THE BOMBARDMENT OF FORT SUMTER AS VIEWED FROM A PASSENGER SHIP IN CHARLESTON HARBOR].
Charleston Harbor. April 13, 1861. [5]pp. Significant tanning, expertly de-acidified. Very good. A fascinating letter from Dr. Aldrich to his widow's sister, relating the events of the critical opening battle of the Civil War. Edward Sherman Aldrich was born in 1811 in Providence, Rhode Island. He married Corrine Brown and.....