Four CSA Letters Relating to the Battles of Fair Oaks and Seven Pines

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Oct 20, 2021 - Oct 28, 2021

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  Four CSA Letters Relating to the Battles of Fair Oaks and Seven Pines, Gustavus W. Smith, New York City, 19 November 1894, a post-war date letter thanking the recipient for his intention to send a history of the Civil War and explaining the differences between his 1884 and 1891 published accounts of Seven Pines, 8 x 9 5/8 in.; Eugene Blackford, Richmond, 1 June 1862, a one-page letter written on captured U.S. Military Telegraph letterhead, saying he is alive by the grace of God and that twenty-two of the men he brought into battle were killed and wounded, also mentioning that he has three bullet holes through his clothes, 8 1/4 x 5 5/8 in., W. Daniel, Richmond, 2 June 1862, a two-page letter naming a few wounded soldiers, the severity of their wounds, and their situation within the hospital, the writer also mentions returning to the field after battle to try and find is son, whose horse was shot out from under him, 12 x 7 1/2 in.; W.F. Riddick, Richmond, 1 June 1862, a four-page letter on Confederate States of America Post Office stationary, speaking to the courage of soldiers who would rather die in battle than "submit to Black Republican domination which a tyrannical northern numerical majority is striving to compell us to live under," also mentions the battle and how both sides incurred heavy losses, fought admirable, and that the Union "showed themselves to be, on the occasion, worthy of our steel," 8 x 5 in.

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