July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Confederate imprint being a Jefferson Davis issued "Address of the President", through General Orders No. 19, Richmond, February 10, 1864, with fantastic content it reads in part: "…In the long and bloody war to which your country is engaged, you have achieved many noble triumphs. You have won glorious victories over vastly more numerous hosts. You have cheerfully borne privations and toil to which you were unused. You have readily submitted to restraints upon your individual will, that the citizen might better perform his duty to the state as a soldier…Again you come to tender your service for the public defense - a free offering, which only such patriotism as yours could make - a triumph worthy of you and of the cause to which you are devoted….Soldiers! By your will (for you and the people are but one) I have been placed in a position which debars me from sharing your dangers, your sufferings and your privations in the field. With pride and affection my heart has accompanied you on every march…Already the pulse of the whole people beats in unison with yours…Your brave battle-cry will ring loud and clear through the land of the enemy, as well as our own…Soldiers! The coming spring campaign will open under auspices well calculated to sustain your hopes…His campaign in 1864 must, from the exhaustion of his resources both in men and money, be far less formidable than those of the last two years, when unimpaired means were used with boundless prodigality, and with results which are suggested by the mention of the glorious names of Shiloh and Perryville, and Murfreesboro, and Chickamauga, and the Chickahominy and Manassas, and Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. Soldiers! Assured success awaits us in our holy struggle for liberty and independence, and for the preservation of all that renders life desirable to honorable men. When that success shall be reached, to you, your country's hope and pride, under Divine Providence, will it be due…Citizen-defenders of the homes, the liberties and the altars of the Confederacy! That the God whom we all humbly worship may shield you with his Fatherly care, and preserve you for safe return to the peaceful enjoyment of your friends and the association of those you most love, is the earnest prayer of your Commander-in-Chief. JEFFERSON DAVIS." Slight dampstaining, else near Fine. Captured by John P. DeMeritt, 2nd Lt. & Quartermaster, 29th Wisconsin Infantry.
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