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Sale 92: The Summer Sale

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Patriotic Lettersheets

Lot 2426    

Confederacy, 7-Star Flag Lettersheet, red and blue patriotic design on lettersheet datelined "Graysburg N.C., July the 24th, 1861" from Hughs Cockerhan to his sisters reading "…the late Battle fought at or near Manassas Junction. The Battle of Bull Run was fought fine, and the enemy sent in a white flag to get permission to bury the dead. But in place of so doing, what did the rascals go at? They went to throwing up breastworks which was no doubt the command of Scott's, but Davis who is always wide awake and watching the movements of the enemy, caught them in the act and ordered his men to commence the battle which was very fatal on both sides. According to supposition dead and wounded is not yet ascertained to any certainty, but it is thought by all the news that we can get that we lost 12,000 & the Lincolnist's 45,000 and our men have followed them near Alexandria, and it is thought by some that the next Battle will be at Washington City. One or two more whippings will settle the hash with the Yankees. We hear Old Scott lost his thumb in the battle, and if it is God's will, I hope he will loose his heading the next…I hope the time is not far distant till the Independence of the South is declared, and may the branches of liberty from a Southern tree extend over a united South and may the son in his court view no soil more free, more happy & more lovely than this, our own Confederacy…"; folds and soiling, F.-V.F. with excellent content.
C.S.A. Catalog No. F7-4    Estimate $400 - 600.

Realized: $325

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