ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY / ARMY & SOLDIER’S PACKAGE EXPRESS RECEIPT—SERGT. C.H RICHARDSON, A COMPANY, 26TH MASS INFY.

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Item Code: 490-6622

Dated, “Boston, April 4, 1863...To be forward by this Company to New Orleans, LA. Value $16, Freight 125 Paid.”  One page, pre-printed yellow form, 9.5” x 5.5. Exhibits fold-marks, else VG plus.

An 18 year-old machinist, Charles H. Richardson enlisted as a private, mustering into Co. “A’, 4/15/1861. Mustered out 8/2/1861, he enlisted in Co. “A”, 26th Mass. Infy, 10/18/1861, and re-enlisted 1/1/1864. He was promoted Corporal 11/1/1861, then to Sergt. 2/1/1863, First Sergeant, 1/1/1864, then to 2nd Lieut., 12/1//1864. mustered out at Savannah, GA., 8/26/1865.

Organized in August 1861, the 26th Mass. Served initially in Louisiana, attached to the 19th Army Corps, participating in the occupation of Forts Philip and Jackson during the capture of New Orleans, April 1862. It was engaged in the 1863 Sabine Pass Expedition, before being transferred in east in the summer of 1864, where it was engaged at Bermuda hundred and later during Sheridan’s Shenandoah Valley Campaign, which included the Battles of Winchester, Cedar Creek and Fisher’s Hill. Following Lee’s surrender it served provost duty in Savannah, GA, mustering out 8/26/1862. During service it lost t 64 men killed and wounded and 185 to disease for a total of 249.

Fine memento of an 18 year old Massachusetts machinist (and packages received from home), who went the distance and was promoted from High Private to 2nd Lieutenant to 2nd Lieutenant along the way. In protective sleeve.    [jp][ph:L]

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