Hi everybody !
I joined up to post about a recent estate sale find, to learn if this is historically significant.
I purchased a large lot of letters from the estate of the Davenport family, here in Charleston, WV. He was apparently a lawyer, and kept every letter ever written to him since the late 1800's. One of the envelopes contained a letter written by Brig. Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer on Dec. 24, 1861, to Lt. Co. McClellan. Also inside of the Zollicoffer letter, was a Five dollar note from a broken bank in Alexandria, Virginia. I really don't know that it is related, but it was folded in with the letter.
The letter was written about three weeks before Zollicoffer was killed at Mills Springs.
Also, I don't know how much weight to put on the note that was added at the bottom of the letter. It looks to be in an old hand, but I don't know if Lt. Col. McClellan was captured or killed that day too, at Mills Springs.
I'll let these documents speak for themselves, and look forward to hearing what you think.
...OK, I'll have to figure out how to add pictures and get back with them. FWIW, these are totally original and have been in storage since about 1930's the best I can tell.
I joined up to post about a recent estate sale find, to learn if this is historically significant.
I purchased a large lot of letters from the estate of the Davenport family, here in Charleston, WV. He was apparently a lawyer, and kept every letter ever written to him since the late 1800's. One of the envelopes contained a letter written by Brig. Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer on Dec. 24, 1861, to Lt. Co. McClellan. Also inside of the Zollicoffer letter, was a Five dollar note from a broken bank in Alexandria, Virginia. I really don't know that it is related, but it was folded in with the letter.
The letter was written about three weeks before Zollicoffer was killed at Mills Springs.
Also, I don't know how much weight to put on the note that was added at the bottom of the letter. It looks to be in an old hand, but I don't know if Lt. Col. McClellan was captured or killed that day too, at Mills Springs.
I'll let these documents speak for themselves, and look forward to hearing what you think.
...OK, I'll have to figure out how to add pictures and get back with them. FWIW, these are totally original and have been in storage since about 1930's the best I can tell.