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19th Virginia ‘Southern Rights Guard’ Letter

Autograph Letter Signed by Edward Cox, Co. H, 19th Virginia Infantry ‘Southern Rights Guard’ Died of Wounds in June 1862, 4p. folio, pencil, Camp Strange on the Potomac, July 3, 1861, and reads in part: "...There has been firing of cannons all of the morning down on the river and it is the impression of all, that the great fight has commenced, and expect to receive orders to move them at any moment but I hope if we do go that we may go with a rush, and enough to make them move as the chops before a storm...many of the young men from your vicinity are about to leave or have left...I hope that it may still press on until every able bodied man who is able to bear arms, have rushed to the support of the Southern flag, as she floats proudly over the heads of thousands of Virginias Nobel Sons, which will ever be the greatest pride of my life if it can be sustained...tomorrow is the day appointed for congress to meet in Washington but I think they will be very apt to move their quarters to Springfield, Ill. For I think that times will be getting most to warm for such men as Lincoln, Seward and other political leaders of the North...This regiment is composed of 1000 men, a fine band of music & c. The two Amherst companies compose a part of the regiment & also Capt. Boyd’s company from Nelson..." VG.

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