Lot
2443 
Confederacy, Jefferson Davis Medallion Patriotic Songsheet, blue medallion design song lettersheet with 10-stars in sunburst and flanking 7-star flags (CSA Catalog JD-18) and wonderful song lyrics "Dixie. Southrons, Hear your Country Call You !" By Albert Pike, S.C. Hite imprint, letter datelined "Manassas Junction, July the 30th 1861" with military content reading "…I was called off on a forced march, and I marched 3 days before I reached this place, and I was carried out on Sunday morning which was the 21st of July to meet the enemy and I met them too. We commenced fighting in the morning and fight till sundown and by the help of God, I went through safe, but Brother John was shot through the leg with a ball. He told me to tell you that he was getting along fine. think he is too. I tell you the balls fell like hail and the cannon balls cleared up a new ground. I never saw the like of dead men in my life. I never read of so many in no history. I have to mourn the loss of a Lieutenant and 2 privates that was killed in the battle and 17 wounded, one brother wounded, and 35 down with the measles. Out of 80 men, about 35 able to drill. That is bad…" and signed William D. Pitman; light overall toning and folds, Fine and scarce 7th Georgia Patriotic Lettersheet. Estimate $500 - 750.
John L. Pitman, Co. G, 7th Georgia Infantry, was wounded at Manassas on July 21, 1861, and was discharged December 7, 1861 at Centerville as obviously his leg wound did not heal. William Dempsey Pitman (1843-1873) was wounded at Thoroughfare Gap on August 28, 1862, and captured at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863. He was paroled at Point Lookout February 18, 1865.
Realized: $1,050