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THBCSA Major Richard Kidder Meade, 1861 ALS with Battle of Big Bethel Content
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CSA Major Richard Kidder Meade, 1861 ALS with Battle of Big Bethel Content
Meade, Richard Kidder (1835-1862). Confederate officer. ALS, 6pp, 2 sheets, first 10 x 8 in., second 5 x 8 in., " Yorktown." June 14, 1861. Addressed to " My Dear Sister, " Susan Meade Bolling. Nicknamed "Kidder," Meade bears the remarkable distinction of service in both the Union and Confederate armies. After graduating from West Point in 1857, Meade was assigned as an engineer officer in Charleston, SC and tasked with harbor fortifications. He later joined the garrison at Fort Sumter and is purportedly responsible for dissuading Major Robert Anderson from firing back against the attackers of the Star of the West. However, when Meade learned that his home state of Virginia had seceded from the Union, he reluctantly resigned his commission and returned to Richmond, where he became a captain and oversaw the planning of the defenses at Yorktown. During the summer of 1862, Meade contracted typhoid fever and died at his home in Petersburg that July. Here, he writes to his sister from Yorktown and describes the Battle of Big Bethel, June 10, 1861.
He writes in part: " Since i have been here, our scouting parties operating between here and Hampton have succeeded in killing two or three of the enemy and taking six or seven prisoners, and on last Monday (June 10th) we gained a splendid victory over the Yankees at Bethel Church. " He goes on to describe the logistics of the operation, noting that while the Union forces outnumbered the Confederates, they " did not expect to meet with any resistance between Hampton & Yorktown so were very much astonished when they met with such determined resistance at Bethel Church. . . their loss in killed & wounded amounted in all to nearly 300. . . They retreated in the utmost confusion throwing away their knapsacks, canteens and accoutrements to accelerate their flight which have been picked up and will be of great service to our men. " - Shipping Info
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