Raynors HCA 2015-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/19/2015
Confederate imprint, 1p. octavo, February 6, 1865, being “RESOLUTIONS Adopted by McGowan’s Brigade, South Carolina Volunteers” and reads in part: “The soldiers and officers of McGowan’s Brigade do...Resolve...That the war in which we are engaged is a war of self-defence; that in the beginning, nearly four years ago, we took up arms in defence of the right to govern ourselves, and to protect our country from invasion, our homes from desolation, and our wives and children from insult and outrage...To submit to our enemies now, would be more infamous than it would have been in the beginning. It would be cowardly yielding to power what was denied upon principle...to brand the names of our slaughtered companions as traitors...Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Heaven!...” Toning at edges, else Fine.
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