Auction Date:2010 May 20 @ 05:00 (UTC-7 : PDT/MST)
Location:11901 Santa Monica Blvd. #555, Los Angeles, California, 90025, United States
Beautifully presented Confederate Civil War poetry album with more than 100 total entries; signed by over 32 Texas and Louisiana soldiers, most from the 4th Texas Infantry and Waller's Texas Cavalry. Album was owned by a woman named Lucy Hilliard, who bestowed Christmas kindness upon the soldiers in 1862. In return, they wrote in her keepsake album, many identifying their regiments, and dating their entries 25 December 1862. A Confederate Lieutenant pens the poem: “Sweet Flowers / If I should fall in death / far far from friends and home / I’ll have you laid upon my breast / the partners of my lonely tomb.” A young soldier headed off to war writes: “To Miss Lucy / A Texan boy now bids a long farewell / To one whose kindness like a light has shone / Upon his dreary hours whom voice a spell / Has woke the memory of days now gone / A star he’ll bear along the front of battle / Where foe, meets foe mid-carnage and mid strife / Perchance mongst bursting bomb and cannons rattle / He’ll yield that star, but only with his life / But should a bright & happier lot prevail / Returned to home & all that he holds dear / He’ll wear that star a pledge that neer can fail / To show thy kindness to the volunteer.” In addition to the soldier entries, other notable persons signed the album including: 2pp. piece written by William Lowndes Yancey, a politician and journalist who pushed for secession; three 1p. poems written by Filippo Manetta, an Italian author who traveled extensively throughout the South and published a book on slavery in his native Italy; and a handwritten poem by Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, a pastor and Chancellor of the University of Georgia who wrote several books including some pro-slavery pamphlets. Also signed by Alabama State Senator Clement Claiborne Clay, Jr., Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana Albert Voorhies, John Greenville, H. Kendall Carter and William Ruffin Barrow. An exceptional Civil War piece in overall excellent condition.
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11901 Santa Monica Blvd. #555, Los Angeles, California, 90025, United States
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