Lot includes items related to brothers Samuel D. Lynn, Solomon K. Lynn, and Granville S. Lynn of Mitchell, Indiana. All three enlisted as privates in the 67th Indiana Infantry on August 19, 1862. Granville died of disease in Memphis on April 1, 1863, while the others both transferred into the 24th Indiana on December 21, 1864. Items include: a horn cup, about the size of a standard shot glass, carved 1863, 67th Ind., Sam D. Lynn; a tintype of Sam and another man, plus a small album of eight other tintypes and two cartes de visite, identified in pencil, including a few other members of the Lynn family; and ten wartime letters from all three Lynn brothers their parents and cousins. Although records indicate all three brothers enlisted on August 19, 1862, a letter from Sam, dated November 12, 1861, at Camp Morton near Indianapolis, speaks of the difficulties of volunteer training and warns that brother Solomon should not join him if he is weak. This turns out to be prescient, as another of Sam's letters, dated August 29, 1862, at Munfordville, Kentucky, informs their parents that Solomon is already in the hospital at Louisville. Sam also speaks of having to sleep on his gun due to rumors that Morgan's men are only 12 miles away and, indeed, the Battle of Munfordville took place just two weeks later. In a letter dated September 7, 1862, Granville speaks more of preparations for the coming battle, and eerily notes that I never had better health in my life than I have had since I left home, though he would be dead of disease less than seven months later. Another of Granville's letters to his parents, on None but the Brave deserve the Fair stationery, says that a hometown friend is very sick, he is not able to help himself, he wants you to send word to his family he says he hopes to meet them in heaven. Solomon writes of being in an unspecified soldiers' home on March 7, 1863, but by May 24th he is improving at Young's Point, Louisiana, and describes to his father the situation there just two weeks before the Union victory there. All in all a nice group documenting the experiences of a family supplying three sons in support of the Union cause. Condition: Cup very good. Album in poor condition but photographs mostly very good. Letters with scattered minor holes and partial separation at edges, but clearly legible (notwithstanding handwriting and spelling issues).
Lot includes items related to brothers Samuel D. Lynn, Solomon K. Lynn, and Granville S. Lynn of Mitchell, Indiana. All three enlisted as privates in the 67th Indiana Infantry on August 19, 1862. Granville died of disease in Memphis on April 1, 1863, while the others both transferred into the 24th Indiana on December 21, 1864. Items include: a horn cup, about the size of a standard shot glass, carved 1863, 67th Ind., Sam D. Lynn; a tintype of Sam and another man, plus a small album of eight other tintypes and two cartes de visite, identified in pencil, including a few other members of the Lynn family; and ten wartime letters from all three Lynn brothers their parents and cousins. Although records indicate all three brothers enlisted on August 19, 1862, a letter from Sam, dated November 12, 1861, at Camp Morton near Indianapolis, speaks of the difficulties of volunteer training and warns that brother Solomon should not join him if he is weak. This turns out to be prescient, as another of Sam's letters, dated August 29, 1862, at Munfordville, Kentucky, informs their parents that Solomon is already in the hospital at Louisville. Sam also speaks of having to sleep on his gun due to rumors that Morgan's men are only 12 miles away and, indeed, the Battle of Munfordville took place just two weeks later. In a letter dated September 7, 1862, Granville speaks more of preparations for the coming battle, and eerily notes that I never had better health in my life than I have had since I left home, though he would be dead of disease less than seven months later. Another of Granville's letters to his parents, on None but the Brave deserve the Fair stationery, says that a hometown friend is very sick, he is not able to help himself, he wants you to send word to his family he says he hopes to meet them in heaven. Solomon writes of being in an unspecified soldiers' home on March 7, 1863, but by May 24th he is improving at Young's Point, Louisiana, and describes to his father the situation there just two weeks before the Union victory there. All in all a nice group documenting the experiences of a family supplying three sons in support of the Union cause. Condition: Cup very good. Album in poor condition but photographs mostly very good. Letters with scattered minor holes and partial separation at edges, but clearly legible (notwithstanding handwriting and spelling issues).
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