Lot 4127
Confederacy, (Confederate Soldiers), Letter from a Confederate Soldier to his sister before leaving Miss. and marching to Tenn., four page letter from H.E. Honnoll dated July 22nd 1862, Brigade Head Quarters, camp near Tupulo [sic] Miss. Fine. Interesting content with "…we are going to leave here tomorrow morning for Chattanooga…the other two Regiments in our brigade is now gone they went by Railroad this morning and we go by foot road with our knapsacks on our backs it is near two hundred miles but we are a hardy race and may expect to have hard tasks but is seems hard indeed to make some march all and others none, when it is a comon[sic] cause that we are fighting for but be that as it may the bloody 24th can march as fast and far as any Regiment on the tops side of green earth, and we are as good in a fight or foot race as any of them and we will prove it before this war is over which I think will not end soon…The Lincoln government has called for three hundred thousand mor[sic] men which call will not be filled without draft….I see no prospect of the war closing in less time than one year and perhaps it may last ten years but I hope it will not. The prospect for foreign intervention as they may seak [sic] an opportunity when both parties are worn down and crippled to pounce upon and subjugate America….I think ere long we will drive the yankees out of old Tennessee…." He also pens an eight-line poem for a fallen comrade, Fine and interesting.
Estimate $300 - 400
Provenance: Ken Lawrence
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| Realized $280 |
