2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
A good early war-date Confederate soldier's letter written by Pvt. William P. Edwards, Co. A, 6th Ga., 4pp. 8vo., Yorktown, Va., July 24, 1861 with cover, reading, in part: "…We have not had the chance of a fight at this place…tho we…expect it every day where seamens is laying off in seven miles of us…also we are in twenty of Hampton where they are landing troops every day by the thousand also about the same as from Newport News. As for my one regiment or a part of it rather four companies which [mine] is included has been out on a scouting party…that is one reason why I do not write more…no one respects a private can get out side of the camps without a permit from the Peneal commander. It looks hard for a freeman to have to [have] a pass like a negro in Georgia every Saturday night…". Amazingly, Edwards survived the war and surrendered at Appomattox, but not after fighting at the battles of Gaines Mills, Antietam and Gettysburg. VG.
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