Tennessee Letter

This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004

Autograph Letter Signed, 4p. octavo, September 17, 1863, Zollicoffer, Sullivan County, Tennessee, and reads in part: “...we left Petersburg on Monday...reached this place it is a little village on the Holston River where the Va. & Tenn. Rail Road crosses. There is a very long bridge here and they have erected a block house at each end with port holes in every direction they are built of logs and are very strong and unless battered down Artillery I dont think that they can be taken they were built for the protection of the brige from raiders...I think that they are looking for a Yankee raid in this part of the country as there are a good many cavalry some distnace further in towards Knoxville....” VG.

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