Mobile, Alabama, May 9, 1840. 2 printed pages plus Partial Autograph Letter (2 x 2” portion of letter torn out) and stamp less address leaf. Sent by the commercial freight forwarding company, Barnewall and Manroy to John Gladstone, Liverpool, England.… more >
Quarto, one page, with another related letter on verso, (two pages, total), formerly folded, otherwise in very good, clean, and legible condition. more >
folio, three pages of a bi-folium, docketed on last leaf “about a patent Lusk”, formerly folded, portion of last leaf missing at lower corner, not affecting any text, else good. 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