Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
War-date Confederate Prisoner of War Autograph Letter Signed by Captain Edward A. Small, 11th North Carolina Troops, 1pp. quarto, Johnson’s Island, September 28, 1864, and reads in part: “...Capt. Graham informs me that I have been placed under your charge by my cousin Mary E. Jones. Knowing my cousin’s judgment to be very good in the most trivial, as well as in the gravest matters, and her taste exquisite in all that pertains to the beautiful, the good, I feel sure, in accepting the aegis of Miss Morfit, of being under the charge of one, who knows how to sympathize with the afflicted in mind, and who will try to drive from me the ennui of fifteen months imprisonment....I eagerly seek after any news coming from home. We are restricted to one page in our epistolary correspondence, and two letters a week...” Fine condition. Edward Small enlisted into the North Carolina State service on April 29, 1861, and Confederate service on August 31, 1861. He saw the ‘elephant’ as a 2nd Lieutenant and fought at Big Bethel on June 10, 1861. He was captured at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863 and sent to Fort Delaware. He was later sent to Point Lookout and exhanged.
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