Lot of 5 letters and manuscript account of Colonel S.W. Harris of the Confederate 6th Georgia Infantry Regiment and Major George B. Dyer 9th Maine Infantry Regiment. The first letter in this group was written by Harris in ink on a single letter sheet headed ‘U.S. Military Telegraph’ dated Wilmington May 30, 1865 addressed to Maj. Geo. B. Dyer Pro. Marshal and reads as follows: ‘Arrived here last evening stood the trip very well from. Met your friend Col. R. who has offered me every assistance a boat will go south in a few days come down if possible. S.W. Harris.’ The manuscript account of the meeting and developing friendship between Major Dyer & Col. Harris was written by Major Dyer in a 3 page account circa 1910 and has four of Col Harris’s letters tipped into this manuscript. This account reads as follows: ‘In May 1865 when Provost Marshal of Raleigh No. Ca., Dr. E.A. Drewry Surgeon C.S.A. who was left on the evacuation of the city by the Confederates in charge of the sick and wounded, came to know me well and one day asked me if I would be willing to call with him on a Confederate officer under his care; Col S.W. Harris of the 6th Georgia Regiment who was very badly wounded. I went with him and found a typical young Southerner, prostrate, unable to move and in pain patient, but longing to reach once more his house. He, in such condition had my sympathy at once. I was able, having much at my command, to provide him with some comforts and luxuries and called on him several times. As soon as he was able to be moved I had a part of a passenger car fitted for his comfort and sent him to Wilmington to be put on a steamer going south. My friend Colonel Randitt (James F. Randlett, N.H. 3rd Infantry Regiment) the Provost Marshal of Wilmington willingly attended to my request and Col. Harris reached his house. In the summer of 1900 I went to Eastport Maine to visit my brother Charles. No sooner had I arrived than I was asked by many if I I had seen Dr. Harris. No I don’t know any Dr. Harris I replied. But that evening a tall young man, fine looking and with a dignified presence called on me and announced himself as the son of Colonel Harris who commanded the 6th Georgia Confederate Regiment. We soon became good friends and spent much time together and later we went on a trip to Grand Nassau N.B. On his way home, he was then a professor in Jefferson College, Surgeon and Physician, he visited me at my home in Boston and since then we have kept track of each other. The kindly feeling exhibited by father and son, the result of a little kindness I was able to do to the father has given me great pleasure and the exceedingly kind letter from Colonel Harris of January 1907 although over appreciating a favor which had been easily and willingly granted has given me great satisfaction.’ The next item is a single pager penciled manuscript letter with cover from Col. Harries to Major Dyer, dated May 1865, reading as follows: ‘Raleigh N.C. May 1865 my dear Maj. Accept my sincere thanks for you kind remembrance of me. be assured that you have long deferred. I would wish for you that you may never need a friend ??? that I might at some time be able to return your many kindnesses. With assurance of highest esteem I am truly your friend S.W. Harris Col. 6th Georgia Reg. Maj. Geo. B. Dyer’ The next is on 7 letter sheets headed ‘State of Georgia Adjutant General’s Office, Atlanta’ dated Jan. 10th, 1907.A truly heartfelt and touching letter from a former wartime foe. The last letter with cover is from Dr. Harris to Col. Dyer, dated July 8th 1907 from Switzerland on Hotel Saratz Pontresina stationary where he was ‘taking the cure’ in the spring waters of the region and explaining why he had not written sooner. The 6th Georgia Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment in the CSA. It was organized at Macon, Ga., in April 1861. Future governor of Georgia, Alfred H. Colquitt, was elected its first colonel. The regiment fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg, the Battle of Antietam and participated in Stonewall Jackson's flank attack at the Battle of Chancellorsville. The unit later saw action at battery Wagner near Charleston, S.C., and the battle of Olustee near Ocean Pond, Florida. The remnants and survivors of the regiment surrendered at Greenboro, N.C. on April 26, 1865, to forces under the command of William T. Sherman.

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