2005-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/28/2005
Autograph Letter Signed, 4p. octavo, Camp Farr, New Orleans, March 31, 1863, and reads in part: “..Last nigth we had a serinade from the 47th Mass Regts band and had a fine time...a very fine band teh best in this department...we also have a band but not as good as that one yet they play very well...I must think that Banks Expedition has proved a failure...he was not the man for this place and that Gen. Butler was just the man...the City is strong secesh now you will hear men talking it in the streets and teh Ladies (if you can call them so) wear Secesh badges on their bonnets and sing the Bonney Blue Flag quite often. There is one now in the City who waved a Secesh Hankerchief in teh face of one of the Officers in teh city. There was a little Reb Flag in one corner of it he took her to the Provost Marshals and he ordered her to come to his officer everyday for the next thirty days and report herself. Lieut. Duncan was down to the city yesterday and saw her in the office he says she was a very good looking woman and yesterday she had two old women with her. I suppose to take the curse off at 6! Martha the woman makes most of the trouble in teh city and I go in for cleaning them out...at the Custom House in teh city they keep the Reb Prisoners and these ‘she things’ go every day with all the best the Markets affords for them to eat and why it is not stopped I do not know...” VG.
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