Raynors HCA 2017-12
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/7/2017
COLCOCK, William Ferguson (1804-1889) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina. Colcock was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1849 – March 4, 1853). He was a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution 1850–1853. He served as collector of the port of Charleston 1853–1865, serving first under the United States Government and subsequently under the Confederate States Government. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Charleston in 1860. War-date Autograph Letter Signed “W.F. Colcock” 2pp. quarto, January 20, 1862, Charleston, South Carolina, and reads in part: “...We are living in times of grand events and God alone knows what the final & complete issues will be....The next few months will produce decisive events. Our enemies are putting forth their maximum strength and will fall like a drunken giant exhausted by his overtaxed efforts. We are looking anxiously for the movements of the Burnside fleet....Willie and Cornelius are with Charles’ command which has abandoned Bluffton by Gen. Drayton’s orders...They have retired from the mainland and are now confined to the Islands...Gen. Gregg has his head quarters at Jericho. He was not in the battle of Port Royal Ferry being absent in Columbia attending the Convention. Gen. Donelson of the Tennessee Brigade is at Bindon and Gen. Pemberton at John Gregone’s house near Pocotalig’s Station. Gen. Lee has his headquarters at Mr. Farri’s house in Coosawhatchie and Gen. Drayton is at Hardeeville. Gen. Evans at Adams Run and Gen. Ripley in Charleston. Col. Mannigault commands at Georgetown...” Fine condition.
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