2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/28/2022
Confederate officer's letter written by Colonel Lemuel Hatch, 4pp., dateline Charleston May 5'61. VG. In small part, "I have just heard from a clear-headed Southern man in NY ... that the soldiers are well drilled in the Zouave standard. ... He says we can only act in defensive for a time ... He urges, however the most earnest preparation ... Black Republicans do not respond. Their ranks are filled with Democrats, many of them quite young. ... Massachusetts ... had ordered from Europe 500 Rifled Cannon ... Our city is now full of men anxious to be doing something & it grieves me to think that they are not at work when there is so much to be done. W.L. Henney ... says he can rifle our brass field pieces & that they will stand. He made fuses for Ripley, will make percussion caps ..."
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