July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Pair of war-date Confederate officer’s Autograph Letters Signed by Captain George Bouton, includes: ALS, June 26, 1861, 1-1/2pp. folio, and reads in part: “...I’m quite well myself, though the camp is quite sick, a number having the measles...Catlett Conway [7th Virginia Infantry WIA & POW at Gettysburg] is doing very well so is Mason Wallace, Wm A Richards, Benj. Simpson, Wm S. Bledsoe, Philander G. Crow [KIA near Petersburg], Isaac W. Southward [POW at Petersburg], Barnett M. Rosson, J. Curtis Smith, Miner Weakely, Benj. F. Gibbs, John Mitchell, THomas Burroughs is about well again. We shall lose more soldiers by disease than the battles. I received a letter from Edwin Booton this morning saying we could look out for a battle in a few days & heard from Richmond a few days since by a gentleman who had an interview with Secretary Walker who gives it as his opinion that there would be no fight. I have heard it said that the Col. commanding at this post (Taylor A.S.) has expressed the same opinion...” Fine condition...plus; ALS, 4pp. quarto, Yorktown, July 1, 1861, and reads in part: “...if you and Mollie were dying I could not leave here, it is an easy matter to come here, but if Messrs. Fitzhugh & Conway were to come here they would find it no easy matter to get away, no one is permitted to pass the lines without a written permit from the commander of the post & to do so then he has to pass the inspection of from two to three sentinels...” Fine condition. (2 items)
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