2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/20/2024
A Confederate soldier's 2pp letter written by James Nunn who mustered into "H" Co. NC 23rd Infantry and was killed on 5/15/1864 at New Market, VA. Dateline, Greenbrier County, Va., March 2, 1864. In large part; "I seat myself to inform you that I am well at this time and I hope when these few lines comes to hand, they may find you and the baby enjoying the same good blessing. ... You said they had took some prisoners in North Carolina and hung them. They say there was sixteen left here the other night and went to the Yankees and they never catched them. Then they got one in the Droop Mountain fight and they shot him. Joe seen him shot before I got here. There was two of been. One shot last Friday and he got away from them and cleared himself...." The hanging incident referred to in the letter was no doubt the execution of Union prisoners at Kinston, North Carolina, ordered by Gen. George Pickett during February 1864.
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