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![6 1/2 x 9 1/4, hand tinted illustration of a woman walking a small dog.
The verse below reads:
You are my Darling
You are my darling; don't I know
Why you are ogling ev'ry beau;
But all in vain, for who would be
Led like a puppy tied to thee.
Comes with a 3 x 1 1/2, imprinted card that has been hand tinted. Features a vignette of Cupid chopping down a tree with the slogan above, "She'll yield in time." There is a note on the reverse of the card addressed to E.[liza] A.[ubin].
Included is the original cover that is addressed to Eliza Aubin, Victory Mills, Saratoga County, N.Y., with a 3 cents George Washington postage stamp [#11] with partial 1860 Boonville, N.Y. postmark.
Light wear and age toning. Interesting grouping.](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/mem3306a.jpg)
![Postally used Confederate envelope addressed to Mrs. Samuel S. Phillips, Lumberton, N.C., with partial Atlanta, Ga. postmark and 10 cents Jeff Davis postage stamp [#12]. Light age toning and wear, and a couple of old stamp hinges at the edges.](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/mem3305a.jpg)
![4 1/2 x 4, imprinted receipt, filled out in ink. Letters from Camden, Miss., Oct. 29th, 1864, to Canton, Miss. Rate 10 cts., No. of Stamps 5, Paid 50 cts. Signed by J.M. Walker, P.[ost] M.[aster]. Light age toning and wear and a tiny hole at the center which does not affect any of the content. Fine Confederate postal receipt printed on brown necessity paper.](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/cd559a.jpg)
![<b>Killed at the battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia in 1862!
Extremely rare autograph letter signed</b>
(1823-62) Born at "Cherry Hill," in Jefferson County, Georgia, he was the younger brother of Confederate General Howell Cobb. He graduated from Franklin College (University of Georgia) in 1841, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1842. He attained a superb reputation as a constitutional lawyer, and edited twenty volumes of Georgia Supreme Court reports (1849-57), prepared a Digest of the Statue Laws of the State of Georgia (1851), wrote a treatise on the law of slavery titled, "An Inquiry into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of America" (1858), and he compiled a new state criminal code, "Code of the State of Georgia" 1861. T.R.R. Cobb was known as an ardent secessionist and a pro slavery advocate and was a member of the convention that took Georgia out of the Union, and was one of the signers of the Georgia Ordnance of Secession. Along with his brother, he was elected as a delegate to the Montgomery, Alabama Convention, which established the Confederate States of America. Cobb served as an original member of the Confederate Congress and was the chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs, and was also on the committee for the drafting of the Confederate Constitution being the document’s principal author. Resigning his congressional position to enter active field service, he organized Cobb’s Legion in the summer of 1861, and was commissioned colonel in the Confederate Army on August 28, 1861. He fought in the 1862 Maryland campaign where his troops suffered severe losses. Promoted to brigadier general, on November 1, 1862, he was mortally wounded during the battle of Fredericksburg, Va., on December 13, 1862. He bled to death after being wounded in the thigh near the Sunken Road, on Marye’s Heights.
<u>Autograph Letter Signed</u>: 2 pages, 5 x 8, in ink.
<b><u>Athens, [Ga.], Jany. 3, [1860]</b></u>
Dear Judge,
I do not think the "City Courts" should go into the General Code- They are merely local- I would ask the Judges of those Courts to codify their laws & have them ready to be inserted if the Committee so think. Your Ms. sent to me has not arrived. How did you forward, by mail or by Express? I have been awaiting its arrival before answering your letter. I expect the accouchement of my wife about 20th of this month. I should not like to leave home till that event is past- so soon as it is- I will advise with you as to a meeting- I am nearly done Ph. III. I will amuse myself with "Penal Code" if I have time before we meet- I thank you for all your action in Milledgeville.
Yours truly,
Thos. R.R. Cobb
Light age toning and wear. Very fine. Excellent content. This letter was written in January 1860 as is proven by the fact that Cobb mentions the impending birth of a child "about 20th of this month," and that he "should not like to leave home till that event is past." He is referring to the birth of his daughter, Marion "Birdie" Cobb, who was born on January 31, 1860.
Extremely rare!](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/auto3480a.jpg)
![<b>Written by a soldier mortally wounded in the Antietam campaign!</b>
6 pages, in ink, written by Frank Aubin on two separate patriotic letter sheets. The first one has a beautiful full color vignette of female figure holding an American flag with the motto, "For The Union" with ship, etc. in the background. Vignette of the New Hampshire State Seal is at right. The second patriotic letter sheet is trimmed in red and blue at the edges, and it also has an embossed vignette of George Washington, American flags and eagle. Comes with the original patriotic postal cover which is addressed to Miss Eliza J. Aubin, Victory Mills, Saratoga Co., New York, with partial Wash., D.C. postamark, Nov. 23, and 3 cents rose, George Washington postage stamp [#56]. There is a faint imprint at the upper left portion of the cover, Empire State, with vignette below.
<b><u>Camp Keyes, Upton’s Hill, Va., Nov. 22, [1861]</b></u>
Dear Sister,
With pleasure I now find myself seated down with pen in hand to drop you a few lines in answer to yours of the 18th which I received last evening, and read with the greatest of pleasure. I will assure you a letter from you or any of the family or friends is a great pleasure to us. I wish I could get a letter from you all every day. I would read then all with the greatest of pleasure. Dear Sister, your kind letter found me in the same state of health as it left you. Dear Sister, you wrote that brother John had enlisted in the Army. I was very sorry to hear it, that is on account of Mother. She will feel so bad about it, but if he wants to come let him come. Do not worry any about him nor I either. I wrote John a letter last night and I told him to stay at home. I discouraged him all I could and yet all that I wrote was the truth. I guess if he gets that letter before he leaves New York State, he will not come. If he is not sworn in he can get out of it himself, but if he is sworn in Father can get him out and his captain can not help himself either. Dear Sister, I was very much surprised when I read that sister Clista was married, and I hope she has got a good man. Eliza, I wrote you a letter the same day that you wrote. That was the 18th and I also wrote one to Tilda the same time, and I wrote her another one since. I will not write you much news this time, but when you see Tilda she will tell you the news for I wrote her most all the news that I knew. Dear Sister, you said that you had written a letter to me and did not put on the number of the regiment. Well Eliza, I can not get that letter for I do not go to the post office to get my letters, for if I did have to go to the office after my letters I would have to go 8 or 10 miles, for we are as far as that south of Washington. Last Saturday I went to the city on a visit and I went to the office and inquired about that letter, but I did get it. Dear Sister, I am very much obliged to you for them postage stamps for it is very hard for me to get them here. You said that you was short of money. Well I have some on order to Father yesterday, so he could get them thirty dollars & send to Mr. Gerard and I also sent Father twenty five dollars more which makes $55 fifty five dollars, and if you need them take them. You are welcome to them all. Dear Sister, you said that Clista had not written to you since she had left you and that you would not write to her again till she writes to you. Well Eliza I would not do so. I would keep writing whether she wrote to me or not. I have received only one letter from her since I [have] been in Washington, and I have written 4 or 5 since I received that one, and I will keep writing whether she writes to me or not, so if I can not hear from her she can hear from me. Eliza here is a rose which I got the other day at Falls Church and I thought I would send it to you so you can say that you have got a rose which came from old Virginia. It is not any one, but you know that we can not get very nice roses this time of the year. I believe this is all I have to say at present so good by. I will close my letter by asking you to write soon and tell me where to direct the letter to John. The one I wrote yesterday I direct[ed] it to Boonsville. Good by once more.
I remain your brother for life,
Frank Aubin
Very fine. Very desirable patriotic letter sheet.
Francis [Frank] Aubin was 21 years old when he enlisted at Glen Falls, N.Y., as a private, on May 7, 1861. He was mortally wounded on September 14, 1862, in the battle of South Mountain, Md., during the Antietam campaign. He died from his wounds the next day.](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/ul1712a.jpg)
![Measuring approximately 7/16 of an inch square, we have the advantage of being able to unquestionably date the period of such hand cut bone dice by virtue of the <U>faint but discernable*</U> red <B>CROWN</B> &</B><B> G. R.</B> marking on each of the two gaming pieces. (These marks were required by British export law during the American Civil War era to record and enforce payment of export tax on gaming devices sent to the American market.) A staple of the Civil War camp or period saloon this original period pair remain in excellent condition and yet demonstrate all the characteristics of period hand cut bone gaming pieces. Clearly hand cut with dots that are somewhat irregular these dice will be quickly recognized for what they are in your collection display. [ *Please note that these original CROWN & GR tariff marks were small and were impressed into the bone with red pigment rubbed into the light impression. With time and use most if not all of the original red pigment has been worn away in most cases leaving the faintest trace of the original CROWN & GR. Identification of the remaining tariff marking will requiring close examination of the rare old hand cut die.] As with <U>all direct sales</U>, we are pleased to offer a <B><U>no questions asked</U> three day inspection with refund of the purchase price upon return as purchased!</B>](http://www.tias.com/stores/gunsight/thumbs/3838a.jpg)
![2 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Benjamin Austin.
<b><u>Oct. the 6th, 1863</b></u>
Dear Brother,
I now take this opportunity to write to you to let you know that I am well at present and hope these few lines will find you well. I wrote to you when I left Emmitsburg, Md. and told you not to write till I wrote to you. I went to Baltimore and there they put me in Camp Tyler and I am there now, and I don’t know how long I will stay. I would have written to you before, but they told me that we would get paid in a few days, so I thought I would wait till I got paid and then write for I hadn’t any paper to write till I got paid, but I waited till I got tired [of] waiting and so I traded stamps for paper. Them five dollars that you sent me I bought me some clothes with it, and it took it all and then I sent to you for some more, and you wrote that Father would send you some, and I left before I got it so I wish you would send me some for I can’t get my pay till I get to my Regt., and I don’t know when that will be. I have 15 months pay coming to me. It will come good when I get it. I will have to close for this time for I want to write the rest of the sheet to Father. So good by.
Please send me some money if you can spare it, and I will try and make it last me till I get to my Regt. Please write soon as this comes to hand.
Typical misspelling. Very fine. Although this letter is complete, Austin did not sign it. It came from a larger group of his letters and I guarantee it's authenticity. Included will be a xerox copy of another letter that he wrote which he signed with full name and regimental ID.
Benjamin Austin, was 20 years old when he enlisted on September 10, 1861, at Hammond, N.Y., and mustered in as a corporal in Co. C, 60th New York Infantry. He was transferred out of this regiment on November 19, 1862, and mustered into the 6th U.S. Cavalry. His date and place of discharge is unknown.
During his time in the service he saw action at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Gettysburg campaign, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and in the Appomattox campaign.](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/ul1711a.jpg)
![4 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Benjamin Austin.
<b><u>Head Quarters, Co. C, 60th Reg. N.Y.S.V., July the 27th, 1862</b></u>
Dear Brother,
I now seat myself to answer your kind letter which I received the other day and was glad to hear from you and hear that you was well at present. I am well as can be expected, for me that is tough as can be, and I hope these few lines will find you well. Zedoh, I think you hurt yourself in writing such a long letter to me. The last time you wrote it was so long that I hardly could get time [to] read it. We have moved from Harpers Ferry and we are about forty miles from Richmond in the Shenandoah Valley Army of U.S. Zedoh, I sent you $35 dollars by express today, and I was in such a hurry that I forgot to sign my name. I thought I would send it in a letter, ten dollars at a time, then I changed my mind and sent it all by express, and the man that was a going to carry it to the office was started and so I rolled it up in the letter that I was a going to send the ten dollars in. I may send you some more in a letter if I have it to spare, but I like to keep enough so if I am sick I can get what I want. Zedoh, I want you to make out a note for the money in my name and give to Father so if I never come home Father can draw the money. I don’t know as I have much more to write, only that I heard that old Jud was getting up another regiment at Ogensburgh called the one hundred & six[th], and it was most full. I think that the boys would be scattering in St. Lawrence Co. I want you to tell me in the next letter whether it is so or not. Dear Brother, I want you to send me some postage stamps for I can’t get them here. I will send you one dollar to get them within this letter. Don’t send over twenty five cts. worth at a time so if I don’t get them there won’t be much lost. Please give my love to all inquiring friends. Write soon and let me know if you got the money or not. I suppose the money will go to Ogensburgh and from there to Redwood, so if you don’t get it you will know where to look for it. I will close for the present. Direct to Washington, D.C., Co. C, 60th Reg. N.Y.S.V., in care of Capt. J.C.O. Redington.
This from your Brother, Benjamin M. Austin
To Zedoh B. Austin
Typical misspelling. Light age toning and wear. Very fine letter with full regimental ID.
Benjamin Austin, was 20 years old when he enlisted on September 10, 1861, at Hammond, N.Y., and mustered in as a corporal in Co. C, 60th New York Infantry. He was transferred out of this regiment on November 19, 1862, and mustered into the 6th U.S. Cavalry. His date and place of discharge is unknown.
During his time in the service he saw action at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Gettysburg campaign, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and in the Appomattox campaign.](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/ul1710a.jpg)
![2 1/2 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Benjamin Austin.
<b><u>Jan. 9th, 1863</b></u>
Dear Brother,
I received your letter last night and would of answered it, but I hadn’t any light. It came through in a hurry. I haven’t much news to write this time. I haven’t received any letters from home since I left Camp Tyler, Baltimore, and I have wrote to them twice, and I made up my mind that I wouldn’t write to them till they write to me first. You wrote to me that you saw the list of killed and wounded out of the 60th N.Y., and there is quite a number of the 60th Regt. in this Regt., [several men in the 60th N.Y.S.V. transferred over to the 6th U.S. Cavalry, the regiment Austin was serving in at the time he wrote this letter] and they wanted me to tell you to send the list of killed and wounded out of the 60[th] if you had a paper with it in for we don’t get to see a paper in a long time. I was sorry to hear that Thomas Lee was killed for he was a good fellow, and so was his brother James Lee. They joined the Regt. when we laid at the Relay House, Md. In the spring of 1862. They are both from Canada. Corp. Sylvanus Backus and Benjamin Corbin is from St. Law[rence] Co., town of Russell, N.Y., and you know where Ben Carlisle is from without me telling you. I think that the 60[th] is getting pretty small by this time. Please tell Elias Russell that I wish him good luck. I guess I will have to close for this time. Hope these few lines will find you well.
B.M. Austin
Light age toning and wear. Typical misspelling.
Benjamin Austin, was 20 years old when he enlisted on September 10, 1861, at Hammond, N.Y., and mustered in as a corporal in Co. C, 60th New York Infantry. He was transferred out of this regiment on November 19, 1862, and mustered into the 6th U.S. Cavalry. His date and place of discharge is unknown.
During his time in the service he saw action at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Gettysburg campaign, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and in the Appomattox campaign.](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/ul1709a.jpg)
![2 pages, 5 x 8, in ink, written by Benjamin Austin.
<b><u>Jan. 18th, 1864</b></u>
Dear Brother,
I now sit down to answer your kind and welcome letter which I received the other night, and was glad to hear from you. I received a letter from Father last night and he wrote that he had written to me before and Lucy May sent her likeness in it, and if you would tell the mail carrier of your Co. to [in]quire for a letter for me at the P.O., and if there is any send them to me, and if there ain’t any if you go near the dismounted camp, you stop and ask the Sergt. that is in charge of the 6th U.S. Cav. if there has been any letters come there for me. I am well and hope these few lines will find you the same. I am on guard today and have not time to write much this time so I will close for this time. I will have to go to the guard house now so good night.
Benjamin Austin
Typical misspelling. Very fine.
Benjamin Austin, was 20 years old when he enlisted on September 10, 1861, at Hammond, N.Y., and mustered in as a corporal in Co. C, 60th New York Infantry. He was transferred out of this regiment on November 19, 1862, and mustered into the 6th U.S. Cavalry. His date and place of discharge is unknown.
During his time in the service he saw action at Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, the Gettysburg campaign, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and in the Appomattox campaign.](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/ul1707a.jpg)
![Historic display with an approximate 2 inch wide remnant of the white fabric of the Confederate Stars & Bars flag that flew atop the Confederate Capitol at Richmond, Va. when the city was captured in 1865. Handsomely displayed within double mat boards of cream and red, it also includes a copy photograph of the Capitol with the missing flag, it's empty pole prominently visible at the front center of the roof, with a large American flag waving in the back.
Includes descriptive text as follows:
<b>The Stars and Bars Removed from the Confederate Capitol in Richmond, April 4th, 1865</b>
John O. Foster was a Methodist minister attached to the 24th Army Corps and is said to have preached the first sermon following the fall of Richmond, April 4, 1865. Foster landed at City Point on April 2, 1865 at 2 P.M. and upon his arrival helped to tend to the wounded from both sides that had arrived by train nearby. Foster also had the opportunity to watch the bombardment of Petersburg. That evening Foster watched Richmond burn, and was later given a pass to enter the city. On April 3rd or 4th, Foster undoubtedly the first Union chaplain in the city, was given a section of the enormous Confederate flag which flew over the Confederate State House. On April 5th, his diary states he visited the Confederate Treasury. He noted, "Promises to pay [bonds] in ton lots- told to help yourself. Did so." Foster obtained as many varieties of bonds and Confederate money as he could and glued the sections of the Confederate flag he had obtained onto them. A label was later affixed to one section stating: " Confederate money valuable as curios, pieces of flag floating over Capitol at Richmond on day of capitulation." Foster then preached under guard at the Presbyterian Church to an audience composed of mostly liberated slaves.
The flag remnant above is from the flag taken from the Confederate Capitol with the edges turned to show a portion of a Confederate bond or banknote Foster removed from the Treasury and glued thereon. The photo shows the missing flag on the Capitol as well as the new Stars and Stripes floating in the breeze nearby.
Includes certificate of authenticity with copy photo of Foster's note, etc. Very desirable and historic Confederate relic!](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/mem3174a.jpg)
![<b>Autograph Letter Signed</b>
(1806-73) Reknown hydrographer called the "Pathfinder of the Seas." At the age of 19 he joined the navy as a midshipman and published his first book, "Maury's Navigation," in 1843. Among his projects were the establishment of a river wide system of information on the Mississippi's condition and the enlargement of the inland canal system. In 1842, he was named head of the hydrographical office of the navy. He brought out his paper on the Gulf Stream, ocean currents and great circle sailing in 1844 and books entitled "A Scheme for Rebuilding Southern Commerce," "Wind and Current Charts," and "Sailing Directions." He standardized the logs kept by ship captains and in 1856 published "The Physical Geography of the Sea." Honored all over the world as the founder of a new science, he was the first man to describe the Gulf Stream and to mark routes across the Atlantic. He also instituted the system of deep-sea sounding and suggested laying of transoceanic cables. When his native state of Virginia seceded from the Union, he resigned his commission, and joined the Confederacy as commander on June 10, 1861. In Oct. 1862, he established the naval submarine battery service and at the time of the Confederate surrender had invented a method of arranging and testing torpedo mines which he was about to put in use. After the Civil War he went to Mexico and served under Maximilian, going to Europe when that government collapsed. Declining a number of posts in Europe, he became physics professor at V.M.I. and wrote a great many other books on the sea and geography.
<u>Autograph Letter Signed</u>: 7 3/4 x 6 1/4, in ink.
New York, 15 Jan. 1840
Sir,
The above check for $24. is the amount of yr. bill against me for one dress black coat. The clothes sent to Baltimore had not arrived there on the 9th ins[t].
I am Sir respectfully & c,
M.F. Maury
Mr. Jno. Earle, Jr.
Boston,
Mass.
Light wear and some light stains.](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/auto3477a.jpg)
![<b>Written by Captain William B. Richmond who was killed in the battle of Chickamauga!
Richmond writes about the Chickamauga campaign and the feud between Generals' Polk and Hindman!</b>
4 plus pages, 7 3/4 x 9 3/4, in ink. Written by Captain William B. Richmond, to Captain Alexander H. Polk, the son of General Leonidas Polk.
<b><u>Hd. Qrs. P.[olk’s] C.[orps] A.[rmy] T.[ennessee], August 29th/63</b></u>
Dear Polk,
The enemy have been comparatively quiet for well since Saturday. On Wednesday for several hours and all this morning we had an artillery fight, but nothing very severe. We have lost perhaps from the 1st day about a dozen men. Your father [General Leonidas Polk] and brother Harry Marshall & in fact all the staff are well. Your cousin General Lucius Polk has just returned. He left his wife at Mr. Jackson’s (I think I am telling a correct story). Peters is still at Atlanta & has applied to be relieved as the Navy Dept. want him to look after its coal interests and in his present position he cannot support his family. Please send me about a dozen of those fine caps. I have none. I enclose that Journal which your father wished preserved, also a copy of the charges preferred against Maj. Genl. Hindman. After I wrote you the other day, and after the direct challenge to Hindman had been returned to Maj. Ingram, the bearer of it, (Ingram) was made to see the light in which he stood in the matter, that is of bearing a message from a man that Hindman had denounced as no gentleman. He returned to Hindman & told him he must have the grounds of his refusal to accept the message for if it was of a personal character he should send him a challenge immediately. Genl. Hindman assured him it was not on personal grounds as he considered Col. Sevier (the writer of the document) very much of a gentleman, in fact from all he had heard of him he was very much prepossessed in his favor. There was then only one position he could take and that was behind his grade. The charges were that night drawn up in the form enclosed & have gone forward. It will now be seen if [General Braxton] Bragg is the man he has assumed to be, to make men "feel the sting of discipline." I don’t know what course he will pursue, but if he don’t at once arrest him he will be made to know that others can comprehend there is such a thing as favoritism. The most amusing thing connected with this whole affair however is the way the young men connected with it conducted themselves. Rutledge, Sevier, Marsh & Brewer took the matter in hand and calling Jack & Morgan in as advisors did all that was done. Huger, Meck, Sam Donelson & Mercer were not consulted to the extent that they thought they should have been and in time got a little indignant I believe and threatened at one time to take the management of the matter in their own hands. Marsh however I believe told Meck that he considered he was acting in the interests of both of them at which Meck was perfectly satisfied, assured that their honor would not be compromised. I observe there are the prints of some soiled fingers on this page. Had I seen them before it would not have been sent you. I apologize for the young man who brought it from the Adjt.’s Office, being the outside of the quire, he couldn’t help it I suppose! The enemy are supposed to be moving up the river on the opposite side. Crittenden’s Corps is supposed to be nearly all near Blythe’s Ferry. The balance of Rosecrans’ Army are thought to be near Bridgeport & Stevenson. The Genl. extended my leave by telegraph while I was at Atlanta to such time as I wanted, tho[ugh] before I left he couldn’t understand where and how I could exhaust my twenty days. I had no idea of your intention to return so soon, or your mother and sister either, and I never dreamed of Gale’s going off in that way. The truth is I had a notion of seeing those wonderful folks near Asheville, and calling at your house before returning. I was dispatched however at Knoxville much to my surprise. Present me most kindly to all your friends. I will try and keep you posted.
Your fr[ien]d,
Richmond
Light wear and some archival tape repairs. Bold and neatly written letter with excellent content. Very desirable Confederate letter.
The writer of this letter, Captain William B. Richmond, was not only General Leonidas Polk's aide-de-camp, but he was also his close personal friend. A week after the death of Richmond at the battle of Chickamauga, General Polk wrote the following letter to his wife in which he paid a fitting tribute to his ever faithful friend. It reads in part:
Sunday, On The Top Of Missionary Ridge,
In Front of Chattanooga, Sept. 27, 1863
My beloved wife,
This day a week ago we fought the battle of Chickamauga, and it was a great success. We should have made more out of it. The enclosed copies of letters will show why we have not. Still it was a great triumph of arms. I wrote you a note from the battlefield, which I hope you got. I said all of us were safe, but, soon after, we found poor Richmond's body, my dear and faithful and attached young friend. We lost sight of him during the day, and found his body next morning lying within sixty yards of my camp, near the enemy's breastworks. He was one of the purest young men I ever knew, and possessed in an eminent degree some of the highest of human qualifications. I mourn for him as for a child. He was shot through the head, and was killed dead from his saddle. I shall ever cherish his memory most fondly. I am now looking down from the top of Missionary Ridge into Chattanooga and into the enemy's camp. I do not think we will attack him, but will learn his plans. But we are very tired of the delay. The troops are in fine spirits; our losses have been large, but not out of proportion to those of our adversary. He suffered very severely. All my staff escaped injury except poor Richmond. Sayers, my Irish engineer was captured. We shall make a forward movement in a few days, I think, without doubt, and we are quite confident as to the future. We look to God for His blessing.
General Patrick Cleburne wrote the following about General Polk and Captain Richmond: "It is due to him and to the country which wishes to appreciate its faithful servants, to say that to the intrepidity and stern determination of purpose of himself and men, I was principally indebted for the success of the charge on Sunday evening, which drove the enemy from his breastworks and gave us the battle. During this advance W.B. Richmond, aide-de-camp to Lieutenant General Polk, was killed; an active and efficient officer, invaluable to his chief."](http://www.tias.com/stores/war/thumbs/cl471a.jpg)
