Raynors HCA 2015-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/19/2015
Confederate imprint “RESOLUTIONS OF THE TEXAS BRIGADE” 4pp. octavo, Camp Texas Brigade, January 24, 1865, and reads in part: “...At a meeting of the 1st, 4th and 5th Texas and Arkansas regiments, composing the Texas brigade of Field’s division, Longstreets corps, army of Northern Virginia...through its Chairman, Serg’t Major J.H. Leete, reported the following resolutions...Whereas, we have seen with feelings of sadness, the clouds of gloom and despondency that have recently gathered in the sky of our young nation, but which are now happily being dispelled by returning confidence, therefore we, the army, who are the people, and the people who are the country, deem it not inappropriate, but fit and proper, that we should in a meeting composed of the Texas brigade, comprising the 1st, 4th, and 5th Texas and 3d Arkansas regiments, make known to our fellow-soldiers, to our country, the enemy, and to the world, our purpose and determination to maintain, at all hazards, and to the last extremity, the rights and liberties which a merciful God has been pleased to bestow upon us, and even to contend for a perpetual separation from the hated and despised foe, who have murdered our grey-haired fathers, insulted our women and children, and turned out thousands of helpless families to starve - after robbing them and burning their houses - leaving them destitute of all except their honor: Therefore be it RESOLVED, 1st. That before the commencement of the great struggle for our rights and liberties we considered well the causes and consequences, for which we were about to take up arms - that our cause was just and that no sacrifice was so great that it could not be made in defense of such a cause...That whilst we die battling in a cause, the most sacred, for liberty and independence, against a people so base, treacherous and despised, that language fails us to properly portray our detestation of them, we cannot be indifferent lookers-on at those in our own country...We may also admit that the enemy have large armies, but it is the Babel of modern times, in which is represented the African, shoulder to shoulder with his brother, the Yankee, who sells himself for a bounty and deserts and sells himself again - the man with the brogue so rich - the avaricious Hessian, and the dungeons of Europe are largely represented....Whilst we, on the contrary, are a unit in our resolution of purpose to be free and independent of those who would kill eight millions of whites or enslave them, in order to give a pretended freedom to half that number of African negroes...” Much more. Lightly toned, else VG.
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