Lot
2615 
Confederacy, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Lengthy letter with interesting contents datelined "Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Sunday Night November 24 1861" and reads in part, I don't know what is the reason that we have to work on Sunday here. We didn't used to when we was at home but here we have to obey these Big Officers here that rides around on their Big Horses with their boots blacked up, riding around giving orders and you have to jump at the word or wear the handcuffs awhile. It is as much as a bargain sometimes that we can keep from running our bayonets through them but that wouldn't do either so we just let them alone & work away.…, We have took the place of the slaves but we don't pick the cotton. We work with spades.…, We was all well this morning & Jim & I was taken out for carpenters to do some carpentry and all the rest went to work on the entrenchments as usual. So Jim and I went to work at tearing down a secessionist's house and put it up for a horse stable and there was a part of the roof fell down on me and knocked the sense out of me for a little while but I am able to scribble again. …, I don't like soldiering since it has come to hard work as this.…, included is original cover franked with 1861 3¢ rose mailed in New York & tied by "New York" duplex cancel, F.-V.F. Estimate $75 - 100.
Realized: $125