2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
A good war-date Confederate soldier's letter written by Sgt. Leonard Williams, Hampton Legion, South Carolina Cavalry, 2p. folio, pencil, on partly-printed Morning Report showing 53 men present for duty and three privates absent without leave, the letter is datelined Bacon Race Church, Camp Griffin, Virginia, February 2, 1862, and reads in part: "…we have left the Occoquan we have been here 3 days & will leave I expect tomorrow for a point on the RR near Bristow. We had to leave our comfortable quarters at Camp Wigfall on act of the impossibility of hauling supplies for our horses. We will still have to keep up the same pickets beyond the Occoquan & therefore will be under the necessity of keeping 15 men from each company here all the time…The health of our men [is] pretty good…If you can get a gardener to lay on the front yard & can manage to pay him out of your little assets I would be glad you would do it & also spend a little if you like for shrubs or evergreens…We have in camp for duty 39 privates & 7 non com officers, absent on detached service…" VG.
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