2020-09 Putnal
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/26/2020
War-date Confederate "Galvanized" soldier Autograph Letter Signed "J.H. Brooks" 1pp. quarto Summerville, South Carolina, November 20, 1864, addressed to Lt. R.J. Cunningham, pertaining to staffing of his regiment, reads in part: "...I have a Battn. of six companies of Foreigners and will be glad to have you with me as 1st Lt. to rank 1st or 2d. I would have offered you a captaincy had I thought of it in time but now I am committed and will have to be content to offer you the Ltcy. Oscar LaBorde is to be one of my captains, and George Marshall another, so also is John Minott. George Taylor I have offered 2d Lt. and intend to offer Willie Taylor a 1st. The Batn numbers six hundred men and if I get the offs. applied for I will have a fine command...." Fine condition. Brooks' Battalion, Confederate Regular Infantry was recruited from prisoners held at the stockade in Florence, South Carolina, the unit was organized October 10, 1864, as "Brooks' Battalion of Foreigners," saw brief front-line service in McLaws Division until December 18, 1864, then was returned to Florence because of desertions and mutiny.
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