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THBImportant ALS by Lieutenant Richard Kidder Meade with Photograph Featuring Robert Anderson
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Important ALS by Lieutenant Richard Kidder Meade with Photograph Featuring Robert Anderson
Meade, Richard Kidder (1835-1862). Confederate officer, the only one of Anderson's officers to abandon the Union. ALS, 2pp, 4.75 x 7.75 in., " Fort Sumter ." March 21, 1861. Addressed to " My Dear Sister ," Julia E. Meade and accompanied by a photograph of Anderson, Meade, and their fellow officers at Fort Sumter, which was later reproduced in Harper's Weekly .
In the letter, Meade writes with news from the Fort, stating, " the papers for some days just have given out the intention of the Gov. to withdraw the Garrison. . . [though] nothing of importance has transpired since my last letter with the exception of that accidental (?) shot fired from one of the batteries on Cummings Point ."
Of the photograph he has enclosed, Meade writes that it was " taken under disadvantageous circumstances in one of our casemates, consequently not well executed; but you will readily see that the 'good looks' of the subjects amply compensate for the bad execution of the artists. " - Shipping Info
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