| LA378 |
CSA #7 Vert Pair (margins a bit irregular and affixed sideways) tied by the large single rim Shreveport, La
CDS 23 AUG (1863). Folded Letter complete addressed to Mrs. Adeline C.
Taylor, Marshall, Texas. Small clipped right lower corner when the
letter is folded but otherwise Very Fine. Ex-Skinner Collection.
The
letter is not signed but was written by the addressee’s husband, Dr. G.
W. Taylor of Marshall, Texas, who had just been conscripted into army
service and was reporting for duty at Shreveport. Dr. Taylor would be
assigned as the Assistant Surgeon of the 10th Tex Inf,
an Army of Tennessee unit. Letter has interesting content “...lying out
in the open air now without tents or camp clothes...sick with chills
and fever also have three large boils on me that keep me in misery all
the time...I am promised an assistant surgeon in a day or two...the
crisis of this war is upon us and requires every man that can go...”
and more. In a different hand on the back possibly written by the wife
“Oh what a change since this letter was written” of unknown
significance, but the 10th Tex Inf did take part in the Battle of
Chickamauga the next month. Typed transcript of the complete letter is
included. |
$300.00 |
JLKCSA@aol.com
-- Confederate Order
Form --