Raynor HCA 2014-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/1/2014
Confederate civilian's war-date letter by well-known attorney Daniel B. Lucas, 2pp., 4to, Richmond, Virginia, July 30, 1864, to "John," n.p., reading, in part: "…I started for the Valley, but did not succeed in getting further than Front Royal… Tell Fred I went to Culpeper and saw his farm, the Yankees have destroyed all the fencing and all outbuildings except the kitchen, and smokehouse; the house is uninjured, and the timber has suffered very little. The land is all set in splendid timothy, is pretty clean and well watered…A man named Clarke, a blacksmith, lives on the land, but the Yankees have left him no force with which to cultivate the land…" This letter was possibly written to the author's personal friend John Yates Beall, who was executed on February 4, 1865 as a Confederate guerrilla and spy. Some loss at the intersection of creases, yet quite legible, fair condition.
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