(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) Letter from a Confederate soldier ho

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"I WAS SO SURE THAT HE WOULD BE BACK IN A FEW DAYS" (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Letter from a Confederate soldier hoping to be reunited with his lost servant. Autograph Letter Signed to Samuel Lucy of Sturgeonville, VA. One page, 10 1/2 x 8 inches, with Lucy's brief signed note on verso; folds, minimal foxing and wear. With original mailing envelope bearing a Confederate stamp and inked Harrisonburg postmark. Harrisonburg, VA, 26 August 1864

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A Confederate private named George W. Griffin of the 53rd Georgia Regiment apparently took his personal servant into military service. During a battle, he and "his boy" became separated, and Griffin was wounded. Here Griffin makes an effort to be reunited with his lost servant. "I received a letter from you several mounth ago, stated that my boy was at your place. . . . I wished that you give him a pass and furnish him with money to come back to me. . . . I have never heard from you nor my boy till today. I saw one of my co[mpany] that had left the command on Sunday last, sed that he had not come back. I was so sure that he would be back in a few days." In all likelihood, with the slave regime crumbling, the unnamed servant took this opportunity to make his way to the Union lines.