Nov 21, 2024 - Sale 2687

Sale 2687 - Lot 80

Price Realized: $ 688
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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Group of documents regarding Confederate seizures of liquor and goods in western Virginia. 5 manuscript items, each about legal size; minor to moderate wear. Rockingham County, VA, 1862-1863
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3 affidavits concerning a Rockingham bar owner who was selling liquor to Confederate troops against military law, plus a related cover letter to Colonel H.B. Davidson, commander of the Valley Department. The affidavits testify that a Derrick Pennybacker was seen selling apple brandy on multiple occasions to soldiers of the 6th Virginia Cavalry from barrels stored in his smokehouse. One of the witnesses was an officer from the Phillips Legion of Georgia, stationed in the valley at that time. Mount remnants on verso; 10-19 December 1862.

With an untitled letter to the editor of the Rockingham Register concerning crop confiscation. 3 pages, moderate wear and soiling, short tape repairs. Urges that the government pay fair prices for supplies, and urges farmers: "Come in with your supplies. Sell to the army of noble soldiers. Spurn from your doors the speculators, the plague spots of our struggling nation. . . . We are a proud people and proudly maintain our rights. Now that Congress and Mr. Davis are disposed to mete out even-handed justice, with exultant hearts we yield all that strictest economy can spare." Appended is a short Autograph Note Signed from Confederate General William E. "Grumble" Jones to Colonel Davidson: "The above is to appear in the Rockingham Gazette if it suits the editor for editorial. . . . If you can secure cooperation on the part of the editors of Staunton, much good can be done towards securing supplies." Lacey Spring, VA, 5 April 1863. Jones was based at Lacey Spring in early April 1863 before embarking on a cavalry raid to West Virginia.