TN Confederate Letter- Exceptional Content

Letter dated December 1st, 1861, written by Pvt. Thomas English of the 3rd TN Infantry, CSA. 3pp. Condition as shown.

"You will bid your family farewell and your soft lying featherbed. Let us shoulder our arms and meet the enemy. Let us fight for our rights, our country, and our homes and our father who has raised us from the cradle [and] our brothers and sisters. Let us show them that we will be a free and independent people and live in and enlighten [the] world. Let us show them that we will never give up to such a people. Let us spill our blood as free as water flowing from the mountains." -Excerpt

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