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Item# 12885
Price: $700
HILLSBORO / ARK // APR / 23 [1862] cds with matching PAID 5, CSA Catalog type A (CCV $600) perfect strikes - on folded letter from Joshua P. Adams to William Dumas, Fort Pillow Care of Capt Williams 14 Arks Redgment (sic) Arkansas Volunteers. William H. Dumas had service in both Co. E, 3rd Arkansas Infantry and Co. C, 2nd Arkansas Infantry Battalion. 3-page letter in dark ink with creative spelling and grammar says, in part, “…taken all the men hear (sic) from 18 to 35 but I cant go yet but when I can I will cum to yo par says that he is going to sind me of to the armey in two months and then I will cum to you…” Adams is a student at the Hillsboro Academy. Detailed history of 14th Arkansas included. [AR] $700.