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Very Patriotic Confederate Letter from Georgia

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Autograph Letter Signed, "A.T. Holmes" 4p. octavo, Decatur, Georgia, June 18, 1862, with cover addressed to Colonel David Bozeman, Central Institute in Alabama, and reads in part: "...The war attacked with apoplexy on Saturday the 7th inst. about 6 oclk P.M. and died the next morning about sunrise. I will be glad to hear that the boys are well, and that they have conducted themselves properly. William and Browning, I understand, are in the army. I hope they have escaped the dangers of the camp and the battlefield. Ryland is at Richmond, or rather, near teh city...He writes in a cheerful spirit, and seems full of southern confidence and patriotism. He was near being killed while at Yorktown. He has been in the army about thirteen months, and has seen some service, and passed through some severe conflicts during that time. His company the Atlanta Greys, belongs to the 8th Regtiment, Georgia Volunteers, and has been stationed at Harpers Ferry, Winchester, Manassas, Orange C. House, Yorktown, and now at Richmond....The year past has revealed to us the true character of the Yankee nation and has manifested in a manner not to be misunderstood, the nature of their feelings towards the South. They are our enemies, jealous, vinidctive and maliquant, and have been for more than forty years. Their ‘hue and cry’ about the Union is barfaced hypocrisy, and their love for the negro is a miserable lie which they would palm upon the world. Believing that they had the power, they have inaugurated a plan of subjugation by which the South may be made tributory to them, and in which thyey may successfuly carry out their regularly organized system of plunder and fraudulent appropriation. They are theives and murderers and in the spirit of reckless despotism, they have doomed the South to bondage and degradation. In Nashville, N. Orleans, Norfolk and Portsmouth, they have exhibited in unmistakable terms, their unrightous purpose towards us, and in their fate we may read the fate of the South, should that purpose be accomplished. But I believe they are destined to a tremendous overthrow. I believe that the day of retribution is not far distant and though thousands of families will be clad in mourning and thousands may weep over the desolation of their homes and firesides..." More. Fine.

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