2009-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/31/2009
A group of three war-date Confederate documents related to Capt. Hugh M. Nelson of the 1st and 6th Virginia Cavalry including a partial letter from a woman to her soldier cousin. Hugh Mortimer Nelson was a 49 year old attorney from Clarke County, Virginia, when he war broke out. He holds the honor of being a member of Virginia's Secession Convention and is credited with raising a company of cavalrymen in less than two days. He was commissioned into service as a captain in the 1st Virginia Cavalry on the day of the battle of First Bull Run, but was quickly transferred into the 6th Virginia Cavalry less than two months later. He served as volunteer aide de camp on the staff of Gen. Richard Ewell, was wounded in action during the battle of first Cold Harbor (Mechanicsville) on June 26, 1862, but became a victim of typhoid fever later that summer and is now buried in Old Chapel cemetery at Millwood, Virginia. Included in the lot are his original receipt Richmond, Dec. 3, 1861 for purchasing from William Ira Smith an overcoat, jacket and pants…PLUS; a manuscript promissory note Fairfax Court House, August 12, 1861 is which Capt. Nelson bonds the use of a cavalry saber to one of his men for the sum of thirty dollars…PLUS; a manuscript copy of an appraisal, Clarke County, Va., May 14, 1861 valuing the horse brought to war and personally owned by 1st Sergeant Charles H. Smith (POW Spotsylvania Court House) as being worth fifty dollars…PLUS: a partial 4pp. 8vo., letter addressed to "Wash" a staff officer on Pendelton's staff reading, in part: "she specks of you continually and…you are often the subject of her thoughts…her wish [is] to receive a letter from the army…you are her only soldier correspondent…her spirits would doubtless be raised by the coming of the army and particularly Gen. Pendelton's staff…the Yankee papers…insist that Lee is about to make a move…people both in Washington and Baltimore are certainly expecting the rebels…I hope…we will some have the pleasures of seeing you all up here…". All from the personal papers of Capt. Hugh M. Nelson. VG
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