(CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE) Sill Edward E Letter by a Confedera

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(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Sill, Edward E. Letter by a Confederate staff officer in the prelude to Fredericksburg. Autograph Letter Signed to his sister. 3 pages, 9 x 5 3/4 inches, on one sheet; short closed separations at folds. Fredericksburg, VA, 24 November 1862

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Edward E. Sill (1831-1905) of Kershaw County, SC was a Confederate staff officer. "The Yankee picketts were posted on one side of the river, and ours on the opposite side. In some places the picketts were not more than 60 or 70 yards from each other. They were quiet and friendly as the orders were not to fire without an attempt was made to cross the river. . . . Generals Lee & Longstreet are both here, and in case of a fight they are fully prepared to meet the enemy and I have no doubt as to the result, as we have an admiral position. The men are poorly off yet for shoes, as they cannot be got. Numbers of them are entirely barefooted." Sill was correct about the battle, even without knowing about the Union blunders to come.