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CONFEDERATE GUERILLA B ILL SNOW IS PURSUED BY YANKEE GUERILLAS

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Militaria Start Price:200.00 USD Estimated At:400.00 - 500.00 USD
CONFEDERATE GUERILLA B ILL SNOW IS PURSUED BY YANKEE GUERILLAS
"Go out slyly or secretly and report to me..."

Superb-content A.L.S. by Lt. Col. G. A. Gowin of the 6th Tenn. Mounted Infantry, 1p. 4to., "Camp Stanley" Dec. 16, 1864 to Capt. Jones concerning the whereabouts of the Confederate guerrilla, Capt. Bill Snow: "I learn that you know where Bill Snow and company are. I am now starting on a Scout or I would go for him. You will find out all you can about him and so soon as I return (which will be about 6 days) I will attend to him - Go out slyly or secretly and report to me about the time named above - Don't say a word to any body about it. In the mean time send your men up to Camp, where they can be better supplied." William Snow (1809 -1876) was born in North Carolina and settled in Tennessee in the 1830s. At the start of the war, he was captain of Co. B of Brazelton's Cavarly. After a year, he resigned his commission, returned to Hamilton County and organized Snow's Scouts with his two sons, operating out of his three story brick home on his plantation at Snow Hill. In late 1864, Union forces hauled cannon from Chattanooga to bombard the house, but were unable to drive out its defenders. The 6th Tennessee Mounted Infantry was organized in October 1864 in Chattanooga and acted as scouts in the Cumberland Mountains in Tennessee and northern Georgia, in pursuit of the numerous guerilla bands that operated in that vicinity. Usual folds, else very good.

Estimate: $400 - 500.

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