2020-09 Putnal
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War-date Confederate Autograph Letter Signed "W.M. Green" 2pp. quarto, Columbus, Mississippi, July 17, 1864, with postally used Confederate cover addressed to Hon. George Waddell in Crawford, Alabama, and reads in part: "...I reached home on Tuesday last, and found my white family well, but nearly all of my servants down with fever. All of them except poor Nanny are getting better but she cannot last much longer. The sickness of the servants has thrown a deal of extra labor upon the Girls; but they bear it cheerfully. Our Community is much stirred by the proximity of the enemy, and their apparent determination to take this place, if possible. Forrest has fought them two days with no little loss, and no decided advantage, except driving them back some five or six miles. Our town mourns several of its citizens fallen in these last two days encounter. Forrest himself was wounded in the foot, and has lost one of his small toes, but it is hoped that he will still keep the saddle..." More. Fine condition. Judge George H. Waddell was killed by Wilson's Raiders in their attack on industries in Columbus, Georgia in April 1865.
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