2004-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2004
Autograph Letter Signed, 4p. octavo, on Gen. McClellan stationary, Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February 24, 1862, and reads in part: “...You ask me how I like sea faring life, I like it firstrate but I imagined it a great deal calmer than it was the day we came around the dangerous Hatteras, but here we are, came trhough safe, and cast off on a desolate island, starving on ham, clam fritters and rock fish...Gen. Hartranff drills us like all blazes...I will carry a musket for a hundred years (if the almighty is willing) to help crush this rebellion. I will die upon teh battlefield first, before such an ignorant people shall force upons us a free people a government of their own concoction. We inquired of the prisoners what we had taken, what they were fighting for. Why they imprudently replied speaking through their nose that they were fighting for Liberty. Liberty be damned they have never been deprived of anything what the Constitution allowed them...Why the bloody rascals even go so far as to fire our own shot and shell at us, that we manufactured years ago, and even use our own cannon to play on us. Talk about Southern chivalry...they ought to take...the whole Southern army and the imbecile Buchanan and tie them to a mouth of a cannon and blow them to the land of Nod, where people can not live by God...” Fine.
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