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Incredible lot of two journals and 47 letters by Henry Washington Landes, a soldier in the 129th Pennsylvania Infantry, Co. C, who writes about the Battles of Fredericksburg, Antietam and Second Bull Run in his correspondence. However, more interesting perhaps is Landes' service as U.S. Marine in 1865, where he not only guarded President Abraham Lincoln's body after the assassination, but was one of a select few Marines tasked with guarding the assassination conspirators, and also the body of John Wilkes Booth aboard the USS Montauk. Landes was even one of three eyewitnesses present for Booth'... |
