2005-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2005
Autograph Letter Signed by Ellen Cox Ewing, wife of Union General Thomas Ewing, 6p. quarto, August 20, 1861, Leavenworth, Kansas, and reads in part: “...Judge Williams was our travelling companion from Lafayette to Quincy. And the notorious Jennison, Captain of the ‘Jay Hawkers’, with his family, was our companion to Leavenworth. Some one told him as he were leaveing Quincy that if the Missourians discovered him they would shoot him. Well, he said, he had eighteen shots for some of them. But they will fire at you from the bushes, you will not get a chance at them, the man replied. Oh! Well said Jennison, I have been shot at from behind bushes many a time before. It is a fact, he carries eight balls in his body now. He is a gentlemanly man, but a terror to the Missourians. We were very fearful of an attack upon the train...the Conductor told Tom that word had been sent to him that five hundred secessionists...inteded killing him, the Engineer the mail agent and several others. Tom made me lie down upon a seat and the children also....We passed about three hundred rebels in a woods, we saw their horses hitched to the trees, but they made no demonstration upon us, and we came through safely and pleaseantly...” More. VG.
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