(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Davis, Wade. Letter from an imprisoned Confederate soldier with pacifist inclinations....

(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Davis, Wade. Letter from an imprisoned Confederate soldier with pacifist inclinations. Autograph Letter Signed to an uncle, one page, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches; folds, minimal foxing. Johnson's Island, OH, 26 August 1863

Wade Davis was an inmate in the Union prison for Confederate officers at Johnson's Island, OH. "I have bin in prison somthing over four monts. I have bin in servis three years next May. . . . I can think of relatives & frinds, it is a great hapiness to me to corespond with them all. . . . I learn you are all rebels but Uncle Wade & he was a good old Union. It is a cures [curious] thing to me that people has but a short time to live & spens that time in cilling up each other." The recipient was likely Wade Hampton Davis (1796-1877) of Nodaway, MO (see lot 39).