2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Autograph letter signed, “Ellison S. Keitt, Capt. Connors Mounted Rifles,” to Gov(ernor) M.L. Bonham, October 5, 1863, 1pp., folio, very good. Keitt is reporting to governor the oppressive actions of the impressment agents in South Carolina, in part, “In my passage through Columbia I found all articles of provision selling at enormous prices ... No one pretends to send anything to market because the impressment officers block every avenue to the city. If action is not taken in the matter you will soon find the People of Columbia without provisions ... the people will become careless about gathering if all the highways are blocked. Instead of the Government agents receiving one tenth which all planters are anxious to turn in, and more if need be ... they house themselves upon all the avenues to the cities and stop and plunder all wagons they can, Sir. If some remedy is not applied we must expect fearfull results.”
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