Lot
2441 
Confederacy, Jefferson Davis Medallion C.S.A. Lettersheet, blue design showing lady and sailor vignettes, H.C. Hite imprint, datelined "Camp Trenton Oct 1st 1861" with some interesting content "…Our Col. is drilling us, very like he drills the officers, a day & then we have to drill our company in squads twice a day in the same thing that he drills us once a day in. I think that if we live through the campaign that I will be tolerable well drilled. I have got Willy a little hot, ready to bring him when I come home. Well, Eliz, I am well pleased with our Col. He is one of the rite kind of men…He is gone home to Memphis to get our guns. We will draw the best rifles that there is, so they say…But if God will spare my life till the war is ended & I get back to live with you, I think that if there ever was a happy man, it will be me, but if it should be my lot to fall in the field of Battle, that I may fall in honor…"; files folds and wrinkling, light toning, Fine and rare lettersheet with some interesting war content. Estimate $400 - 600.
Realized: $450