Civil War Letters: Virginia

Graphic Description of Battle of Malvern Hill by Joseph R. Manson 12^th Virginia Infantry – “IT WAS A SAD SIGHT TO WALK OVER THE FIELD OF BATTLE AND GATHER UP THE DEAD TO BE PLACED WITHOUT COFFIN OR SHROUD UNDER A FEW INCHES OF DIRT.  THERE WE PLACED THE DARK-SKINNED CREOLE FROM THE SWAMPS OF LOUISIANA WITH THE INVADERS FROM THE OLD GRANITE & GREEN MOUNTAIN STATES OF THE NORTH…”

18^th Virginia Letter – George M. Setszer, June 21^st, 1863… He would be killed at Gettysburg on July 3^rd in Pickett’s Charge – “WE HAD A FOOT RACE WITH THE YANKEES FOR THE POSSESSION OF SNICKERS GAP.” – “I EXPECT THAT WE WILL TAKE ANOTHER TRIP TO MARYLAND AS OUR CAVALRY HAS ALREADY BEEN OVER.”

18th Virginia Infantry – William Robert Elam, Wounded & Captured in Picket’s Charge, Writes from Johnson’s Island, Ohio

Excellent Confederate Letter from the 26^th Virginia Infantry – Lt. Alexander Frederick Fleet of Company I, stationed near Charleston, S.C. Writes of the Union Bombardment & Gives Great Description of Beauregard!

27^th Virginia (Stonewall Brigade) Confederate Letter Written on Captured “Yankee Paper” (A Beautiful Patriotic Sheet) along with Captured Union Patriotic Cover! – Mentions the Incident of “Brother Fighting Brother”, the 1^st Maryland CS Meeting the 1^st Maryland US!

One of Our Best Confederate Covers Along with a Captured Union Patriotic Letter Sheet – Abram C. Pendleton Co. K, 50^th Virginia Infantry