Raynors HCA 2016-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/17/2016
A Southern Reconstruction era letter, 4pp. 8vo., written by George Jones, Bates Co., Missouri, June 19, 1866 to his father, in part: "…your letter…gave us great pleasure…but this pleasure and joy is still mixed with grief on account of my poor soldier brother who fell like a soldier and died at his post in the Confederate cause which he thought was rite to fight for his rights. There has been thousands died in prison. There has been hundreds shot down in this country in their houses and in their yards and some in their fields because they claimed to be south and had…sympathy for the south. Oh what a cruel war was waged against the south, but I am glad to say that the people of the old Dominion made…many a Yankey's heels fly up. If I had been in old Va. I might of got killed, came very near being killed by staying at home by the Sons of Bitches or the abolitionist or the John Brown Raiders. The south had to fight too many too long…and the north had the advantage in everything. We took the papers time the war was going on…the government is in a pretty fix in the hands of Radical abolitionists…Geo. and Susan Jones." VG
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