Raynors HCA 2015-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/19/2015
Confederate imprint, 1p. octavo, January 30, 1865, being the “RESOLUTIONS Adopted by the Officers and Men of the 57th Virginia Regiment”, and reads in part: “...Whereas the long continuance of the bloody struggle in which we have been engaged during the last four years, for liberty, independence, and all the sacred rights dear to men; the many sacrifices which the army and people have been called upon to make in the prosecution of war;...Be it resolved, That now is not time to dream of submission and reconstruction, when the enemy is at our very door; when the blood of our brothers, our sons and our fathers call upon us for vengeance; when their bones lie bleaching on every hill-top and valley from the blood-stained heights of Gettsyburg to the placid waters of the Rio Grande; while the shrieks of our insulted women ring ever in our ear...and when the flames which destroyed the whole of Central Georgia have scarce died out.....we take occasion to express our unbounded confidence in that great and glorious patriot, General R. E. Lee,...and express our determination to fight to the last, to gain our freedom, or perish in the attempt...” Purple “REBEL ARCHIVES” stamp, very good condition.
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