Raynors HCA 2015-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/3/2015
A great Confederate POW's letter, 1p. 4to., written by Lt. Alexander Porter Morse, CSA Ordnance Department, Steamer Cahawba, off Fortress Monroe, June 8, 1863", to his mother Margaretta S. Morse (Wederstrandt), in part: "We arrived here this evening after a delightful trip…I feel like a different man & have been gaining strength every day…Capt. Fusulier [Capt. G. L. Fusilier of General Taylor's staff], Capt. Fuller [Capt. E. W. Fuller, Queen of the West] & all our sick have been improving rapidly. We are not certain whether we are to be exchanged or kept in confinement at the Fortress…Wilson Zouaves [6th New York Vols.] return on the Cahawba with us and constitute our guard…they treated us very well. I shall write to Baltimore if we stay here…all are party are well & have arrived here safely. My love to Rosa, May, H. & C., Pa Nursey, servants & all my friends…yr devoted son, A. P. Morse". Also included is a 1p. oblong 12mo., manuscript military pass issued by Union Brig. General James Brown (1808-1886) as provost marshall of the Department of the Gulf, being a period copy, reading, in full: "Office of Pro. Sheriff, Custom House, [New Orleans], May 16, 1863. Pass Mrs. Morse & family at all times to see her son a Prisoner of War confined in the Custom House. James Bowen, Brig. General". Negligible tape stains effecting the letter, else VG
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