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CAPT. BEDFORD GIFFORD LOT OF FIVE ITEMS

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:850.00 USD Estimated At:1,700.00 - 2,200.00 USD
CAPT. BEDFORD GIFFORD LOT OF FIVE ITEMS
<B>CAPT. BEDFORD GIFFORD LOT OF FIVE ITEMS: THREE LETTERS & TWO TINTYPES, 1863.</B></I> Three handwritten letters: <B>1). </B></I>One page 5” x 8”, (laminated) Camp near Memphis, Tenn. 1863, in part, "<I>I merely write you at this to inquire whether you ever received my letter enclosing my 'Photograph'...</B></I>";<I> </B></I><B>2). </B></I>One page, written both sides 8” x 10”, (laminated) Fort Pickering, Tenn. 1863, in part, "<I>I have been to the City today to see some sick boys that I have there in the Hospital and found there some better but still quit sick, it is rather a sad sight to visit one of those large hospitals and see the hundreds of sick solders that are within their walls some cheerful, some disconsolate, some dying & so on</B></I>..."; <B>3). </B></I>Two pages, written both sides 8” x10”, (laminated) Fort Pickering, Tenn. 1863, in part, "<I>I sent $300 dollars with and told him to pay of the mortgage on the place... Lieut. Brown & some 7 or 8 of my Company here have gone up the river in charge of rebel prisoners & the probability is that they will go to the eastern shore</B></I>..." Signed “Bed”. Two tintypes, a sixth plate, 2.25” x 3.25”, of him in his dress uniform, and an unusual horizontal format, 4.25” x 2.5”, sitting with fellow unidentified officer to his left. <BR><BR><B>Condition:</B></I> Letter are all laminated, Tintypes are very good, chipped.<BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Miscellaneous Collectibles, Smal (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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