104 letters, 534 manuscript pp., dated 19 December 1869 to 1 March 1875, with the bulk dating from 1870-1874. 7 letters are not dated, but fall within the same general time frame of the rest of the collection. more >
quarto, 3 pages, plus stamp less address leaf, formerly folded, portion of second leaf torn away, with loss of text, some splits along folds, else in good, legible condition. more >
Quarto, 223 manuscript pages, plus blanks, bound in half red leather, marbled paper covered boards, back-strip loose, but present, worn at corners and edges, text written in ink, in very good clean and legible hand. more >
Dramatic eyewitness account of Confederate General Earl Van Dorn’s early morning surprise attack on Holly Springs, Mississippi, the resulting capture by the narrator, a cotton buyer from Rhode Island, and the destruction at the Union supply hub