Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
Amazing content letter, November 4, 1860, Taylorsville, Il., 3 1/2pp. Written by Evan Betty to L.M. Henderson, with original transmittal cover. Reads in part "....There was a Douglas meeting in town yesterday and they had a big time in the mud. There was not hardly a sober man in the mean. Every Douglas crowd (ed) the Wideawakes and the Hickory Club had a torch light procession last night. Henry and I and six other has left the club and gone in with the Wideawakes and will vote for Lincoln. The Hickorys was a hard looking crowd. Their captain and one of the Wideawakes got into a fight and they fit (fought) right in the mud, and there was about a hundred pitched in with their poles and there was a big time for a little while but there was nobody killed....". Great Wideawakes content and fighting among different political factions during the 1860 Presidential campaign.
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