AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

A.L.s to Mrs Phillips, La Grange, Georgia, 3pp, 8vo written with a miserable pen on very bad paper by Franklin Buchanan, American admiral in the Confederate Navy during the Civil War and commander of the C.S.S. Virginia, Mobile 1865; he writes When at Tuscaloosa I was informed of the surrender of the gunboats to the enemy and that the officers had been paroled and sent here' and continues with his earnest thanks for all the kindness shown him by Mrs Phillips 'Thank you, your worthy husband for your great kindness to me under your friendly and hospitable roof ... I return your valuable present ... which you with so much delicacy placed in my pocket ... Through the assistance and liberality of my Mobile friends I am in possession of sufficient funds to carry to my family ... I was much pleased to see the Col. and to see him looking so well, his early garden work agrees with him. In a postscript, he adds ... I feel for my estimable friends Mrs Mallory and Hill, tell them not to be alarmed, the Yankees dare not hurt them.

Franklin Buchanan (1800-1874), an American naval officer, had been captured in the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864 and had been paroled in early 1865.

Condition Report

Slight split to top fold, a little browning.

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