Raynors 2012-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/27/2012
Brigade Officers Want Robert Rodes Appointed Major-General Confederate officer's letter by Major Eugene Blackford, 5th Alabama Infantry, "Head Quarters 5th Ala. Regt. Inf., Near 'Santee' Caroline County Virginia," March 8 - 9, 1863, 8pp., 8vo, to his father, William M. Blackford, Lynchburg, Virginia, reading, in part, "…I was in Fredericksburg last week and visited the old place…Who wd. Have believed that I should see a party of Confederate soldiers occupying Mother's home: the rooms I believe in which I was born! Yet there they were gnawing away at their hard bread and salt pork in true Confederate style…We are apprehensive of a campaign in the Valley, which is much to be dreaded owing to the distance from our base and the great sufferings entailed among the sick and wounded…Jackson is said to have a great desire to attack Millroy…I was drilling my sharpshooters and much interested observing the different times at which the bugle signals reached the men at various distances…the infantry…who are thus obliged to picket against the enemy's cavalry, no easy matter, I can assure you, even for Jackson's famous foot cavalry…we are all much interested in the appointment of our new Division General. Yesterday this brigade sent up a petition signed by every officer in it asking that Rodes be made Maj. General and assigned to this command…It is very humiliating to a soldier that these vile politicians in Richmond would have to be consulted in regard to the appointment of a Maj. General…" Very fine condition.
Click on a thumbnail above to display a larger image below
Hold down the mouse button and slide side to side to see more thumbnails(if available).
Click above for larger image.