Relics Captured From Confederate Home

Group of various items related to Charles C. Paige, 11th New Hampshire Infantry. Includes an intact and excellent condition volume of Ms. Felicia Heman's “Poetical Works” with a letter written by Paige to his wife Mille. The letter describes the book's capture from a deserted home that was ransacked by both Federal and Confederate soldiers. Also included in the group is an annotated paper envelope of “glass thread” also taken from a Jackson, MS home during the war; an unmounted wartime CDV of an unidentified woman; a souvenir leaf; circa-1877 NH Veteran ribbon commemorating the Army & Navy Monument in Boston, MA; a colorful print of a magnolia, Mississippi's state flower; and a Berlin-work embroidered ribbon reading “To My Dear Papa.” An interesting and well-documented souvenir group.

Paige was a 24-year old from Candia, NH when he enlisted as a Sergeant in Company I, 11th NH Infantry on 8/11/1862. He mustered in on 9/2/1862. Paige escaped fighting in the west unscathed but was subsequently wounded at Bethesda Church, VA on 6/3/1864, following the Ninth Corp's return to the eastern theater. He was promoted to 1st Lieutenant on 12/5/1864 but was unable to be mustered as such due to the severity of his wound. Paige was discharged on 8/23/1865.

[Civil War, Union, Confederate]