July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
War-date Autograph Letter Signed, “Norm Harrold,” 3pp. quarto, Headquarters ‘Scalp Hunters’ Camp Chowan, North Carolina, January 11, 1864, addressed to Jefferson Davis, it reads in part: “...It is with feelings of undeveloped pleasure that an affectionate conscript entrusts this sheet of confiscated paper to the tender mercies of a Confederate States Mail Carriers addressed as it shall be, to yourself O’Jeff - Red Jacket of the Gulf and Chief of the Six Nations - more or less - He writes on the trunk of a shivered monarch of the first with the pine trees wailing around him and ‘Endymons planet rising on the air’ to you Czar of all Chivalry...he appeals for the privilege of seeing on his own hook a land less free among the Hyenas of the North. Will you not halt your ‘brave columns’ and stay your gorgeous career for a thin space...Your happy conscript would go away to the far off north...Behind he leaves the legitimate chivalry of this embounded nation centered in the illegitimate son of a Kentucky horse thief. But a few words illustrious President and he is done - done. Elevated by their sufferings and their suffrages to the highest office in the gift of a great and exceedingly free people. You have held your position without a change of base or purpose of any sort, though many months of war and want and woe; and though every conscript should write with the thousands and true men at the South in a grand old grief of your downfall. So too will they sink under the calamity of an exquisite joy why you shall have reached the eminent meridian whence all progress is perpendicular. And now bastard President of a Political abortion farewell. ‘Scalp Hunters’ relic pole and chivalrous Confederates in crime ‘good bye’ except it be in the Army of the Union you will never again see this conscript...Norm. Harrold of Ashtebula Co. N.C. ...Milford N.H. March 7, 1864.” VG.
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