Beschreibung:

American Civil War. A group of 3 Autograph Letters, Plattsburgh, 1861-64, the first two written and signed by Hannah S. Trigg, in a semi-literate style, to her sisters, the first letter informing them of the death of her husband and daughter, 'With aking heart and weeping eys to inform you of the death of my husband and daughter he was killed in the battle in the Willderness the seventh day of last May... ' and continuing with her pain and referring to April last year, 'Susan left home she went to Nashaway to work in the cotten factory that is about 220 miles from home ... she was taken sik with the typfet fever and then lung fever sat in and she lived five weaks and five days from the time she was taken sik and then died... ', continuing in similar vein with some repetition, the letter seemingly finished in a more literate hand with some discussion about whether her husband was still alive, the second written in 1863 and with some similar agonising over her losses and wishing to hear back, 'How bad it makes me feal not be the war is done but it is because I think how some of the soldiers can come hom to their famlys... ', the third letter written in another hand, 31 January 1864, '... I wrote to you before father was in the army he came home in April got his discharge and staid at home till August then enlisted over again for three years he got three hundred dollars before he started he let out two hundred at interest till he comes back, and he gits 13 dollars a month besides. Dear aunt I tell you we miss him greatly... ', a total of 12 pages, some spotting and soiling, 8vo, together with a tintype of an American Civil War soldier holding a sword (Quantity: 4)