2020-07 2 sessions
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War-date Confederate officer's Autograph Manuscript Signed "Lieutenant Howard C. Wright, Johnson's Island January 20th, 1865" 2pp. folio, being a poem penned by him as a prisoner of war entitled "Half past Ten O'clock, and 'All is Well!', it reads in part: "...Silence, deep, profound, mysterious,/Gains her sway with subtle power/O'er the wind, She hold imperious/Court within the solemn hour;/ While the sable sky is turning/With her starry countries gleaming,/And the vestal moon is beaming/There as well....'All is well' The prisoner sleeping/ In his bunk so rude and bare/ Lees an aged Mother weeping/ Hear's a young wife's whispered prayer!/ 'All is well' While Hope forsaking/ Leaves behind it only aching!/'All is well' while hearts are breaking! 'All is well'...". More mounted to ledger sheets from scrapbook. Near fine condition. New York native Howard C. Wright was a newspaperman in New Orleans, Louisiana, when the Civil War began. He joined the 30th Louisiana Infantry Regiment when it was formed in 1862 and became a lieutenant. Captured at the surrender of Port Hudson, he was imprisoned with other officers in New Orleans. He wrote an account of the siege which was originally serialized as Port Hudson: Its History from an Interior Point of View as Sketched From the Diary of an Officer in the Daily True Delta less than a month after the surrender. Wright's account was printed in book form for the first time in 1937 by the editor of the St. Francisville Democrat and republished in 1961 by the Committee for the Preservation of the Port Hudson Battlefield in Baton Rouge in 1961 and again in 1978 by The Eagle Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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