2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Lot of 3 Autograph Letters Signed "CSG", 6 pages, quarto, 1861-1862, Georgia to her parents. These fine letters from the Southern homefront neatly illustrate the how early Confederate hopes steadily gave way to growing despair. They read in small part: "(3/6/61)...Daughter says they never hear anything but politicks. In her last Mrs. Jackson has gone to Montgomery to see our first Southern president inaugurated...they want to make Tuskeegee the Capital. I wish they would bring it to Georgia...(4/16/62)...our mail comes once a week, last week we had none, so we don't know whether the Yankees have taken Savannah or not...we have had neither Sugar coffee or flour for six months. we live on corn bread and milk. I can see nothing but starvation ahead of us...(8/1/62)...I have never felt the death of anyone more than Charley. I was so anxiously looking forward to another month when his time would be out and I should see him.In his last letter to us he said if he lived till July he would be home and would come to see us...". Folds, else clean and VF.
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