Raynors HCA 2015-08
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/27/2015
Confederate imprint “RESOLUTIONS Passed at a Meeting of the 14th Virginia Infantry - January 24, 1865.” 2pp. quarto, and reads in part: “...At a meeting of the 14th Virginia Infantry, Stewart’s brigade, Pickett’s division...the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted ...Whereas the successes which have recently attended the armies of our enemies, in their mad determination to subjugate an enlightened, christian and independent people, have cast a gloom over our land...that a southern soldier or citizen, who for any other consideration than that of absolute freedom and eternal separation from that enemy who has spared no species of insult or injury that malice could devise, would lay down his arms, and now submit, is unworthy to breathe the air of freedom...it is better to die freemen than to live slaves...” More.
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