2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
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Confederate soldier's letter written by Stanley Crittenden who enlisted on February 1 1861 at Greenville, South Carolina, and was elected a 1st Lieutenant in the 4th South Carolina Infantry. Stanley, the 1st Lieutenant of Co. D, was wounded in the left breast on 1 June 1862 at the Battle of Seven Pines in Virginia. Late in the war he served as a Lt. Colonel in the 3rd South Carolina Reserves. He would commit suicide 1911. Datelined Columbia, South Carolina, Sunday, 4 o'clock p.m. (1861?). In part, "I have picked up an old piece of paper as you perceive to write you a few lines for tomorrow's mail. ... We are liable to be called from here any time to Virginia and if you felt like coming, you could easily stay at Janny's Hotel a few days & I could be with you all the time. ... I volunteered with some 60 of our cavalry & two of the regiments for Virginia if needed. You will see by today's paper that the Governor considers all the volunteers as liable to be ordered to Virginia without volunteering again, as defending Virginia is defending our own state. We may be ordered there ..."
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