Raynors HCA 2020-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/27/2020
War-date Confederate officer's letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by Lieut. Mann Page [WIA Cedar Mountain, Va., Aug. 9, 62], 21st Virginia Infantry, "Hd. Qrs., 21st Regt. Va. Infantry, April 11th, 1864," to his uncle, David Copeland Randolph, reading, in part: "…I am very sorry to hear that they have commenced robbing about in your part of the country…if William Smith is in the country I wish you would get Aunt Funt to let him know that Capt. Dabney says he would like to get him & if [he] comes out here try and get him to bring me a box for I think I will have to call on you to help us out in the eating line. Send us the peas for they answer for bread & meal…I want to send my extra blanket back & what clothes I can spair for we will be allowed very little baggage thirty pounds being all allowed an officer to come on the wagon including cooking utensils. Everybody seems to think we will have bloody work here this summer but I do not think…that it will come off in less than a month for it will take that time for the roads to get good enough and at present Grant has not got the army over the river [or] that [he] could do what he proposes and I hope he will not be able to many men…Mann Page." Minor soiling, else VG
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