2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
War-date Confederate letter 4p. octavo, Alexandria, Virginia, June 4, 1861, with good content, though incomplete, it reads in part: “...I fear that in a short time we will not be able to get newspapers or letters for the Federal Troops are coming further south every week and will soon stop all communication between the North & South. This state I think will go out, on the 8th inst., and then we will be in the same fix that the South is...if the people was left to themselves they would vote this state into the Union but the Preachers, Lawyers, Judges, and nearly the whole press has been won over by some means to the South and against the Union, and this great influence will I fear vote the state out...I think that when the northern troops force their way down in the South it will be very hard for a northern man to remain in many places and have a white man’s chance. The excitement is quite high here the election comes off on Saturday next which will determine our fate...” VG.
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