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Confederate Home Front Letters 1861-1864.... (Total: 6 Items)
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Confederate Home Front Letters 1861-1864. Six letters from the "folks back home" to men in the military. They provide a window into conditions at home and an overview of the progress of the war. 1) 4-page letter, Richmond, May 21, 1864. Mother and sister write of events at home. A brother is in New York to "dispose of some goods". Another man has just returned from there. "It is dreadful living in N.Y. now for a Southerner - they can't open their lips and have to put up with all the insults of those abominable Yankees." Mother writes: "I have just finished a flannel band for you... intended to protect the bowels and prevent dysentery." 2) 4-page letter, Richmond, June 25, 1861. Sister writes to brother who is with one of two companies of howitzers at Yorktown. She is "so very busy sewing for the soldiers...The Cadets are all very much displeased with the way in which Col. Smith has treated them... prevented then from being commissioned... and now wants them to join a Brigade he intends forming - and go as privates in the ranks to be officered by men that don't know half as much about military tactics as they do... they have refused." General E. Kirby Smith ("Cousin Edmund") is at Harper's Ferry. Prisoners are being brought in from Manassas. 3) 4-page letter, Pulaski [TN], June 8, 1862 from Francine M. Jackson to her prisoner-of-war friend. "You have heard Col. Morgan... paid us a visit 1st May! Southern women were glad to see Southern men and for this Andy Johnson - that man whom we all admire so much - says we shall still be punished more for it... that we shall be imprisoned for talking and made to patch the Fed's old breeches! Now just think of one man's undertaking to do what Lincolns whole army combined could not accomplish! We Tennessee women have no ambition to steal the Gov's old occupation from him, and he had best not meddle with us." 4) 8-page letter written on two sets of bifolium stationery, Flat Pond, Georgia, August 6, 1863, from a wife to her husband. Mostly routine content, urging him to be more devout in his religious beliefs, despairing of the war ending soon, talking about men who have been drafted into the army. 5) 4-page letter, Lynchburg, Virginia, March 26, 1864 from Jennie to her cousin Davie. "We are almost on the point of starvation here, so I advise you, unless you are tired of life, to remain in Salisbury until 'this cruel war is over.'... My little soldier having been a prisoner since the battle of Gettysburg, consequently I am in entire ignorance of his condition. He is confined in Fort Delaware, that vilest of Yankee prisons, and it would not surprise me in the least of hear of his death." 6) 4-page letter, Richmond, Virginia, February 1, 1864 written by a lady to her brother, serving as a Captain in the Trans-Mississippi Department. Cross-written on three pages, reflecting the scarcity of paper. Times "are hard and sorrowful for us... we have been called on to drink of the cup of affliction. Since the commencement of this cruel war, two dear ones have been laid in the grave... Congress is passing very strict laws putting almost every able bodied man in the field... Oh, that this dreadful war were at an end."Auction Info
2015 December 12 Civil War & Militaria Signature Auction - Dallas #6144 (go to Auction Home page)
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