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1863 Union Civil War Letter, re: Jeff Davis

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"The wooden-nut-meg-cowardly-abolition-
Yankee-mudsill-government of the North..."

UNION CIVIL WAR LETTER.
Autograph Letter Unsigned, August 3, 1863, West Liberty, Iowa, 4 pages, 10" x 7.5," Very Fine. To Miss Minnie R. Holmes, from her cousin, who refers to the Confederacy as "Jeff and his minions... I think Jeff Davis and the would be government of which he represents the head have a kind of double handed conspiracy on their Programme, the one the world knows is to obtain from the wooden-nut-meg-cowardly-abolition-Yankee-mudsill- government of the North the stolen nights of the chivalric South. The other to interrupt our correspondence..." Light soiling.



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