2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
A good war-date Confederate soldier's letter written by Sgt. Leonard Williams, Hampton Legion, South Carolina Cavalry, 4p. quarto, Camp Evans, Virginia, Catlett's Station, Orange & Alexandria R.R., March 3, 1862, and reads in part: "…We are under marching orders & so I believe is the whole army; what is on foot we have no means of finding out, we are ordered to send all our superfluous baggage to Culpepper all our sick & disabled horses & the rest to hold themselves in readiness to march. We have an idea our movement will be towards Fredericksburg or Aquia Creek…I am more anxious now than when you were at home in the midst of the dangers that threaten Charleston…Genl. Johnson is getting up a thousand horses & from this, the Army around Centreville may be preparing for a forward movement. I am pained to hear of the extent of sickness in the army around Charleston from all I can learn the up country soldiers must have & are still suffering most severely. I fear they were but poorly supplied with blankets. I am surprised to hear of the high price of corn in Charleston, farmers all over the south should this year use all industry & devote themselves almost entirely to the production of provisions…Fanny is a first rate weaver I wish you had a loom & cards, she & Nan could make cloth enough to cloth them all…" VG.
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