2005-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2005
Autograph Letter Signed by John N. Peed, 9th Virginia Cavalry, 1-1/2p. quarto pencil, Camp Co. I, 9th Virginia Cavalry, Greenville Co., Virginia, January 15, 1865, and reads in part: “...I am sorry you have to part from the old mare but I suppose it was better to sell her before she eat her head off...I can’t imagine what was the matter with her, surely the service did not do her as bad as that. I neccesarily will have to have a horse in the spring and I think now is the best time to get a horse as they will be cheaper in the winter than they will be in Spring. And as you have cattle to spare I think it best to sell some for specie to buy me a right good horse. As to the colt I reckon he is too small & young for the service...Some of the boys seem to be having a good time in the county. I don’t see how they can stay at home they have been reported to the conscript officers. I suppose they bust dodge it. No talk of disbanding at this time, although there is a talk of a petition being sent in for each company going to his respective county. There is only a rumor nothing positive about it....the hardest rains I ever saw fell here one day....last week. It washed away bridge that had been standing for about a hundred years, about a hundred feet of the Weldon rail road bridge near Weldon was washed away...” VG.
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