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AUSTIN MCKINNEY of Norwich, CT, enlisted on August 15, 1862, as a Corporal into I Co. Connecticut 21st Infantry. While in the military, he was promoted to Sergeant, 1st Sergeant and 1st Lieutenant. The 21st was in the battles of Fredericksburg, Drewry’s Bluff, Cold Harbor, Chaffin’s Farm, Siege of Suffolk, Siege of Petersburg, Second Battle of Petersburg and the Appomattox Campaign.
Offering two ALSs from McKinney to his wife, a cabinet photograph believed to be of Mrs. McKinney, an 1866 life insurance policy taken on McKinney’s brother Hezekiah, a letter sheet lithograph view of “Maj. Gen. Peck’s Headquarters at Suffolk, Va.” (Washington, DC: Bohn, C 1865. 4 ¾ x 7 ¼ ), which includes part of an autograph letter on the verso. And, a partly printed travel pass (3 ¼ x 3 ¾) completed in manuscript, 9 February 1865, for “Mr. Quinn to travel from Norfolk, Virginia, to Newberne, North Carolina.”
2 pp, 4 5/8 x 7 7/8, New Port News, March 7th, 1863. In pencil.
“...There was a member of our company went home to Norwich this week and I sent you that little rabbit that I got at the Battle of Fredericksburg and supposed you should have got it before this time. It is pretty dirty but suppose it is better than nothing for it came from Fredericksburg...I have just wrote to Hezey (his brother) and hope he will get it and answer it for I want to hear from him very much for it has been a long time since I have heard from him. When I wrote to you last I told you about the boat Cumberland that was sunk by the rebel boat Merrimack. I have got a piece of her mast and am going to make a ring and if I can send it home to you. I have also got a piece of the boat – Congress –that the rebels burnt at the same time I have a heart of it and will send that also the boat was burnt to the water’s edge...A.A. McKinney” [The relics McKinney mentions are not present.]
2 pp, 7 7/8 x 10, Camp, 21st C.V. Richmond, VA, April 14th, 1865. In black ink.
“...I do not feel very well as I went on picket yesterday in the rain. It rained all night and this forenoon and there was no shelter and I got wet and besides I had no sleep since night before last. Soon as I finish this shall got to bed and sleep hard enough to make up for last night. About two hours ago orders came to be ready to march at day light. We do not know where we are going but are ordered to report at City Point. I hope the order will be countermanded but it may be for the best wherever we go. We have only a little over four months anyway. I went around the city last Sunday and there was a dog followed me to my quarters. He looks just like Dandis and he follows me everywhere I go. He went on picket with me. But if we march I expect I shall lose him but I am going to try to keep him and bring him home with me if I live to come home...Austin A. McKinney”
Toning and folds to the letters. A couple of edge chips to the 1865 letter. Pass and life insurance policy folds reinforced with archival tape.
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