2005-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2005
Group of three (3) letters written by William H. Chapin, all from Louisiana, Missouri, and read in part: “...[8/15/1860] we have had a warm political time here but excitement has died away since the Election. The Union party have elected their congressman in this district and their sheriff in this county....[5/20/61] should our state seceed, and there is a portion of citizens that are using all the means that the most deproved beings could resort to to take it out of the Union, if they should succeed in doing so the more calm and considerate look for a horrid time here...I think I can discover teh same hydraheaded principle that governed the old Jackson party in the first stages of that horrid Political scurge that passed over this country in the Bank veto times adn that was to rule or ruin. There is another class of our population that I consider very dangerous...horse thieves, no sooner in my opinion than war breaks out here then will be a class of our citizens that will resort to all kinds of plunder and brutal conduct...[7/31/61] [a friend in Virginia]said a person...taht he had every confidence in came out to see him and told him that he had a horse in his pasture keeping for a man that had gone off with Jackson in the army, he said he went out in his pasture and found the horse with his throat cut and dead and he said that some of this good Union friends had done it...” More. VG.
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