Raynors HCA 2015-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/19/2015
A good war-date, ca. 1861, Confederate letterpress broadside/poem, printed in red ink, 1p., measuring approximately 2 3/4" x 8 1/4", entitled: "THE SOUTHERN MAN," written by Catherine Ann Warfield (1816-1877) aka "a Southern Lady." The five stanza poem, reads, in part: "You can never win them back…though their corses [corpses] strew the earth that smiled upon their birth…they have risen, to a man…every hand is on its knife, every gun is primed for strife…you have no such stately men. In your Abolition den. To march throe' foe and fen…they may fall before the fire of your legions, paid in gold for murder'd hire…for every drop you shed. You shall have a mound of dead! and the vultures shall be fed in our regions…". Several of these rare poems have been sourced in institutions with none being offered at auction recently. Minor mount thinning effecting the verso with negligible paper loss at lower right corner, else VG.
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