Raynor HCA 2014-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/1/2014
Confederate soldier's war-date letter by Private R. P. McCormick, likely "North Sumter Rifles," Co. "A," 5th Alabama Infantry, 3pp, 4to, Manassas Junction, Virginia, December 5, 1861, to a "Mrs. Reavis," n.p. (Gainesville, Alabama?), reading, in part: "…I have just come in from listening to heavy cannonading for at least three hours in our advance, in to the right of Centerville…An hourly attack expected on both Centerville and Dumfreys. Skirmishing nearly every day between pickets. "Our boys are bagging and bringing in some of the enemy every few days now, and soon expect if they will make an attack on Centerville to wipe them entirely out. I was up to Centerville a few days since and walked around and examined the fortifications. I suppose it is one of the strongest fortified points in the Confederacy…We have gotten through building winter quarters…All have good log cabins…" Very good condition.
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