(CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE) Bills Lafayette Letter from a newly

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"TO LIVE OR DIE IN THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY" (CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Bills, Lafayette. Letter from a newly enlisted Kentucky soldier. Autograph Letter Signed to his uncle. 2 pages, 8 x 5 1/4 inches; trimmed on left edge, small hole in text area. Camp Boone, TN, 9 September 1861

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Corporal Lafayette Bills (1824-1886) wrote this letter shortly after enlisting in the 2nd Kentucky Infantry: "Providence or something else has thrown me here to live or die in the Southern Confederacy. . . . The people in this vicinity upon the secession question are all of one mind." He also asks for assistance in moving his family from Kentucky to Tennessee.