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[Civil War] Confederacy
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description
- ink and paper
4 war-date documents from Confederate combatants:
1. Daniel Ruggles, C.S.A. General. Autograph letter signed in purple pencil, 4 pages (9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.; 251 x 197 mm), Virginia, 6 June 1861, to Colonel R.S. Garrett, an apparent first draft; several emendations and paragraph deletions in purple pencil, tiny losses at folds, discoloration at folds. Ruggles reports on Aquia Creek: "I have the honor to report for the information of the Commanding General [the] ... results of the actions at Aquia Creek ... the 29 & 31st of May and the 1st of June, respecting which brief field reports were submitted on the 30th ... copies of which are herewith ... submitted ...." The field reports are copied in this apparent first draft.
2. Ruggles. Autograph telegram signed, 1 1/2 pages (8 x 5 in.; 203 x 128 mm), Mississippi, 18 June n.y. [1862], to Major General Tupper; slight separation at central fold. Ruggles telegraphs for assistance: "The Enemys cavalry three hundred strong is at Tallahalchie Central R.R. bridges ... I send reinforcements tonight. If it meets your views I propose calling out the minute men in case further advances render it expedient in accordance with Special Orders No. 5. can you support me with additional troops? I have telegraphed his Excellency ..."
3. Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, C.S.A. General. Autograph letter signed ("F.K. Zollicoffer"), 6 pages (13 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.; 343 x 215 mm), Nashville, May 1861, to Governor Isham G. Harris of Tennessee; first leaf with long separation at fold, marginal chipping, remnants of former binding, browned.
One month after attacking Fort Sumter, the Confederacy tries to gather munitions: "Under your orders I proceeded to Montgomery on the 19th just to obtain information respecting the general condition, resources, defences &c of the Southern states. I had free communication with President Davis ... The Confederate States government has thirty thousand troops in and on the way to Virginia, beside these there are more than twenty thousand Virginia state troops there. They are all under the command of Major General Lee ... these troops are concentrated in camps at Harpers Ferry, Norfolk, and intermediate points. President Davis intends to start immediately for Richmond ... Davis deems it not proper now to take the initiative in attack ... All the arms at the disposal of the ... government had been placed in the hands of the troops. ... What was left of the machinery at Harpers Ferry was removed to Richmond, and they are now manufacturing guns there at the rate of seventy five muskets per day ... we ought to get all the rifles we can, already in the hands of our people, and put all our private gun shops to work making them, without delay. They require only the minnie ball an increased charge of powder, and a moveable ... sight to be regulated for long or short distances. ... Little doubt is felt as to obtaining supplies of gun powder long before the present stock in the Southern States is exhausted ..."
4. "General Service Code," manuscript explanation and key to an alpha-numeric code, 2 pages (7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.; 201 x 132 mm) on a half-sheet of blue-ruled paper; framed with a later label claiming that the code was "found among the papers of Brigadier General Turne Ashby, CSA, KIA 1862 near Harrisonburg, VA."
1. Daniel Ruggles, C.S.A. General. Autograph letter signed in purple pencil, 4 pages (9 7/8 x 7 3/4 in.; 251 x 197 mm), Virginia, 6 June 1861, to Colonel R.S. Garrett, an apparent first draft; several emendations and paragraph deletions in purple pencil, tiny losses at folds, discoloration at folds. Ruggles reports on Aquia Creek: "I have the honor to report for the information of the Commanding General [the] ... results of the actions at Aquia Creek ... the 29 & 31st of May and the 1st of June, respecting which brief field reports were submitted on the 30th ... copies of which are herewith ... submitted ...." The field reports are copied in this apparent first draft.
2. Ruggles. Autograph telegram signed, 1 1/2 pages (8 x 5 in.; 203 x 128 mm), Mississippi, 18 June n.y. [1862], to Major General Tupper; slight separation at central fold. Ruggles telegraphs for assistance: "The Enemys cavalry three hundred strong is at Tallahalchie Central R.R. bridges ... I send reinforcements tonight. If it meets your views I propose calling out the minute men in case further advances render it expedient in accordance with Special Orders No. 5. can you support me with additional troops? I have telegraphed his Excellency ..."
3. Felix Kirk Zollicoffer, C.S.A. General. Autograph letter signed ("F.K. Zollicoffer"), 6 pages (13 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.; 343 x 215 mm), Nashville, May 1861, to Governor Isham G. Harris of Tennessee; first leaf with long separation at fold, marginal chipping, remnants of former binding, browned.
One month after attacking Fort Sumter, the Confederacy tries to gather munitions: "Under your orders I proceeded to Montgomery on the 19th just to obtain information respecting the general condition, resources, defences &c of the Southern states. I had free communication with President Davis ... The Confederate States government has thirty thousand troops in and on the way to Virginia, beside these there are more than twenty thousand Virginia state troops there. They are all under the command of Major General Lee ... these troops are concentrated in camps at Harpers Ferry, Norfolk, and intermediate points. President Davis intends to start immediately for Richmond ... Davis deems it not proper now to take the initiative in attack ... All the arms at the disposal of the ... government had been placed in the hands of the troops. ... What was left of the machinery at Harpers Ferry was removed to Richmond, and they are now manufacturing guns there at the rate of seventy five muskets per day ... we ought to get all the rifles we can, already in the hands of our people, and put all our private gun shops to work making them, without delay. They require only the minnie ball an increased charge of powder, and a moveable ... sight to be regulated for long or short distances. ... Little doubt is felt as to obtaining supplies of gun powder long before the present stock in the Southern States is exhausted ..."
4. "General Service Code," manuscript explanation and key to an alpha-numeric code, 2 pages (7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.; 201 x 132 mm) on a half-sheet of blue-ruled paper; framed with a later label claiming that the code was "found among the papers of Brigadier General Turne Ashby, CSA, KIA 1862 near Harrisonburg, VA."