1ST ALABAMA INFANTRY LETTER

Very rare content about Grierson's Raid!

4 pages, 5 3/4 x 9, in ink, written by Andre Harville Beauchamp, to his wife.

Port Hudson, La., May 1st, 1863

My Dear Wife,

I have not received a letter from you in a week nor don't expect to in another week in consequence of the cavalry raid of the enemy into Miss. as you have seen it stated in the paper. They tore up the Rail Road track and burnt up the depots in several places. It is a most daring thing equal to anything Stewart [he is referring to J.E.B. Stuart]...  

27TH ALABAMA INFANTRY LETTER

2 2/3 pages, 7 3/4 x 9 3/4, in ink, written by Captain J.L.B. Goodwin, to his sister. Comes with cover address to Miss Mary B. Goodwin, Wytheville, Wythe Co., Virginia, with ID at left edge, F.L.B. Goodwin, Captain, Co. A, 27th Ala., Port Hudson, La. Docket at the top, Recd. Feb. 16. Ans. Feb. 24th/63.

27th Ala. Regt., Port Hudson, La., January 28th, 1863

My dear Mary,

For the first time since leaving Tupelo in July last, I am stationary and run boast of a local habitation and a name and reap the benefit of our postal...  

1ST ALABAMA INFANTRY LETTER

Plus letter & cover written to him while a prisoner of war at Camp Douglas!

4 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by A.H. Beauchamp.

Vicksburg, Miss., Sept. 24/62

My Dear Wife,

I am free once more and you know not how my heart leaped for joy when I once more set my foot on the soil of my native South. I have enjoyed uninterrupted health ever since I have been [a] prisoner. I have suffered all the petty annoyances that could be put on any one that was in prison. My greatest trouble was in not hearing from home. I...  

1861 WASHINGTON ARTILLERY OFFICER'S LETTER

Mention of the first Confederate field officer killed in the war!

3 pages, 7 3/4 x 9 3/4, in pencil, written by Lieutenant George McNeill.

Camp Beauregard, Va., July 6th, 1861

My Dear little Niece,

I see you are possessed of a large show of one characteristic peculiar to feminine vices, therefore I will satisfy your curiosity at once as to what was the evil genious that gave me the fright spoken of in my last letter. It was a very large pet coon which belonged to one of our neighbors and had gotten away...  

CONFEDERATE PRISONER OF WAR LETTER, POINT LOOKOUT, MD.

Written by Captain of the 23rd Arkansas Infantry captured at Port Hudson, La.!

7 3/4 x 9 7/8, in ink, written by Captain George K. Cracraft, to Mrs. Susan Taylor, Newport, Ky.

Point Lookout, Md., Feby. 27/64, Ward 9, B[uilding] 52

Mrs. Susan Taylor
Newport, Ky.

My Dear Cousin,

On the 8th of July last, at P[or]t. Hudson, La., Gen. [Franklin] Gardner, C.S.A. capitulated to the forces of Gen. [N.P.] Banks, U.S.A. My Regt. was a part of the garrison and hence the opportunity of writing to you from...  

1864 LETTER WRITTEN FROM COLUMBIA, S.C.

3 pages, 5 x 8, in bold pencil, written by Lou W. Lumpkins.

Columbia, So. Ca., August 13th, 1864

I cannot sleep. How like a joyous yet half miserable dream- this meeting with my Darling. Seems Mc, my own Dear Sister, in the one short hour since your rosy lips were pressed to mine. I've almost cheated myself into the delusion that I am mad & have never seen you. Do you my pretty one realize that we two have met? You must not feel badly because I have told you I was disappointed. I was not disappointed in your looks for you were...  

1864 LETTER WRITTEN BY A GEORGIA GAL

2 pages, 7 1/4 x 12, in ink, written by Lou W. Lumpkin

Cottiswood, Jan. 5, 1864

Dearest Best Sweetheart & Darling,

I know you are vowing all kinds of wicked things upon my poor head for not writing you but wait, for though patience is troublesome, reward is sweet. In the first place, I have been thinking, I would go to Macon any day for two weeks, but as I did not go, of course did not have the pleasure of reading your letter which I told you to send to that place. I feel quite sad & blue tonight. It is late, everyone...  

1863 LETTER FROM A GEORGIA GAL

8 plus pages, 5 1/4 x 8 1/4, in bold pencil, written by Lou W. Lumpkin.

Cottiswood, Sept. 18, 1863, Friday Night

My own Dark star!

Your letter was handed me late this evening & tis now 11 o'clock at night. Your letter, I cannot tell why...has made me very sad. I thought I knew you but still there is something about you, about your letters that make one unhappy- no, not unhappy- but miserable. This letter, yes I have it in my hand & as I press it to my lips, I feel it all through my body. It takes my breath away & leaves...  

1864 LETTER WRITTEN BY GEORGIA GAL

6 pages, 7 1/4 x 12, in bold pencil, written by Lou W. Lumpkin.

Macon, March 27, 1864, Sunday Afternoon

Scarce five moments ago as I sat here by my bed with my head pressed to the pillow thinking, thinking, Oh! thinking till my brain seemed about to burst, your letter Darling, my Darling, was handed me. Oh! Rena, I cannot tell you how I prize your dear, dear beautiful letters. They are gleams of sunshine to me Darling & so like you own dear self that after reading them I feel as if I had almost seen you & heard your sweet voice...  

1863 LETTER FROM A GEORGIA GAL

2 pages, 7 1/2 x 12, in ink, written by Lou W. Lumpkin

Cottiswood, Dec. 24, 1863

My Darling,

I have just returned from Macon. Guess how glad I was to receive two such charming letters as those you wrote me. God bless you my Pet! And you are well. I am so glad. Could you see how joyous I am you would then feel how dear you are to me. Of course I am not hurt at the manner in which you wrote me. With regard to Kelsey & Capt. Corbett I don't care anything about it. I am well assured you would not allow any one to...  

CONFEDERATE LETTER FROM DANVILLE, VA.

4 1/2 x 7, 2 pages, in ink, written by Lou W. Lumpkin.

Danville, Dec. 28th, 1864

My Own Darling Mc,

Why you do not write I am unable to tell. My letters all remain unanswered. You are either sick or they never reach you for you have ere this gone to the plantation. I am almost crazy to see you, to receive a long letter penned by your fingers. Oh! I can scarcely stand it. It seems to me like an age of eternity had rolled by since last you wrote me. Oh, who can it be that causes our letters to never reach the right places?...  

1864 CONFEDERATE LETTER FROM DANVILLE, VA.

2 pages, 7 3/4 x 12, written by Lou W. Lumpkin.

Oct. 13th, 1864, Danville, [Va.]

My Dear Mc,

What upon earth is the reason you do not write to me? I have looked! looked! written & written, yet not one single line has come to make my heart bound with joy. Darling I miss your precious words of love. Oh Rena, my sister, Pet, I love you more & more each hour of my life. Darling, my darling, why do you not write? If you could know how unhappy your long silence has made me you would write immediately. You remember my precious...