Feb 27, 2003 - Sale 1961

Sale 1961 - Lot 267

Price Realized: $ 1,265
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
RECOUNTS THE MURDER OF SLAVES (MILITARY.) Extraordinary Union soldier's Autograph Letter to his father. 2 pages, folio. LaGrand, TN, 07 November 1862

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Letter recounts the murder of 4 slaves by their master. Having camped after a long march, several soldiers set out in search of food and come upon a plantation where they find the bodies of 2 Black men hanged and 2 women clubbed to death. They come upon a fifth slave who survived the slaughter and related what happened. Full transcript available.