2024-01 Raynors Americana Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/20/2024
Unique Letterhead "Head Quarters Colored Troops, Norfolk and Portsmouth", 2pp pencil letter. In part, "To day I have been to the Episcopal Church built in 1736 and was secesh 'till Gen. Barnes seized it a few weeks ago. ... the Communion was administered and at the chancel rail were Gen. Barnes & some of his staff, private soldiers, and Black men and women. It was a sight for Angels to Rejoice over, .... Ole Ivan Brown's daughter is a teacher of little Black children in town. ..."
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