Raynors HCA 2017-12
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/7/2017
War-date Confederate soldier’s Autograph Letter Signed by C.W. Peabody, 1st South Carolina Rifles, 4pp.quarto, Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, October 7, 1861, with cover, it reads in part: “...Col. Orr has been made commander in chief in and over Charleston Harbor. His forces already upon the Island will number about twelve hundred men, exclusive of the forts which will increase the number to about fifteen hundred and fifty. Among the first mentioned are a fine Marine Company, an Artillery, and a Cavalry company...You have also learned the Regiment is to be turned into a Legion...We had quite an interesting time Saturday last or rather Friday last by the presentation of a regimental flag from the ladies of Charleston...Two Company flags have been presented in the Regiment before this but I never thought them worth the mention....we will have a Naval engagement at this place before very long. We have three or four small Confederate war vessels in the harbor, they having run the blockade some time ago...The British vessel which run the blockade at this place some six or eight weeks ago passed out under the cover of darkness one night last week, and it is said carried out the War Commissioners, Mssrs Slidell and Mason for England and France...” Fine condition.
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