February 23rd, 2012
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2012
Letter written and signed by "Jas H. Thornton," one page, 4to, with hand-carried cover, Coffeeville, Alabama, July 18, 1865, to A. R. Langford, Suggsville, Alabama. In part, "…I have been having a gay time since I returned from Prison…There is nothing scarcely in the business line going on in Coffeeville…Marion York & a yankee by the name of Mall are doing business in Coffeeville they have a little of everything…Cant you come up to Coffeeville next Friday. We are going to have a barbecue….I know you will enjoy it, there is plenty of young female women around here some of them are very fast, the war demoralized them in every sense of the word…" Stains, pinholes, small area of loss at fold. Overall good condition. This early postwar letter was a communication between two ex-Confederates who knew first-hand the miseries attendant to POW life. Thornton, an enlisted man, survived nearly two years at Rock Island, whereas Colonel Augustus Langford spent near a year on Johnson's Island. Both veterans would surely have savored barbeque and female company.
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