Title: Autograph Letter, Signed - 1865 Ex-Confederate tours the post-war South as Tobacco salesman Author: Hewitt, Fox Place: Memphis, Tenn. Publisher: Date: Sept. 22, 1865 Description: 4 pp. With original mailing envelope. To Miss Annie Wade, Richmond, Virginia. Writing five months after the end of the Civil War, Hewitt recounts to a lady friend that after recuperating from military service at his Kentucky home, he found a job travelling agent throughout the post-war South as agent for Louisville manufacturers of “Fine Cut Chewing and Smoking Tobacco.” This took him through Georgia, Alabama. Mississippi; and Tennessee. His trip had been “hot and disagreeable, as the railroads in the South are in most miserable order still and there is some rough staging to do” – the roads being so “rough and disagreeable” that women were never seen travelling. The “oases in the desert of my route” had been meeting old friends and making new acquaintances, “accomplished charming ladies” in Americus, Georgia and Canton, Mississippi who were friends of his two brothers, both ex-soldiers, still home in Kentucky “having a gay time with the girls…” From Memphis he would go to New Orleans, “visiting cities on the River as I go down”, then retracing his route to Kentucky. “And how is it with you ‘in these piping times of peace’… I often think of old times in Richmond, which seemed sad whilst they were passing, but which contained many a happy moment… I hope my business may carry me to Richmond before long…we will have many a merry laugh together, now that ‘grim visage War has smoothed his wrinkled front’…” Fox Hewitt was one of three brothers from Kentucky who served the Confederate cause – one as Adjutant of a Kentucky regiment who was severely wounded and disabled in battle; another, a schoolmaster, as aide to the first Confederate Postmaster General and Adjutant of another Kentucky regiment; and Fox himself as a Confederate Treasury clerk in Richmond until he joined a Virginia battalion in defense of the Confederate capital. Lot Amendments Condition: Yellow stain on envelope; very good. Item number: 238372
Title: Autograph Letter, Signed - 1865 Ex-Confederate tours the post-war South as Tobacco salesman Author: Hewitt, Fox Place: Memphis, Tenn. Publisher: Date: Sept. 22, 1865 Description: 4 pp. With original mailing envelope. To Miss Annie Wade, Richmond, Virginia. Writing five months after the end of the Civil War, Hewitt recounts to a lady friend that after recuperating from military service at his Kentucky home, he found a job travelling agent throughout the post-war South as agent for Louisville manufacturers of “Fine Cut Chewing and Smoking Tobacco.” This took him through Georgia, Alabama. Mississippi; and Tennessee. His trip had been “hot and disagreeable, as the railroads in the South are in most miserable order still and there is some rough staging to do” – the roads being so “rough and disagreeable” that women were never seen travelling. The “oases in the desert of my route” had been meeting old friends and making new acquaintances, “accomplished charming ladies” in Americus, Georgia and Canton, Mississippi who were friends of his two brothers, both ex-soldiers, still home in Kentucky “having a gay time with the girls…” From Memphis he would go to New Orleans, “visiting cities on the River as I go down”, then retracing his route to Kentucky. “And how is it with you ‘in these piping times of peace’… I often think of old times in Richmond, which seemed sad whilst they were passing, but which contained many a happy moment… I hope my business may carry me to Richmond before long…we will have many a merry laugh together, now that ‘grim visage War has smoothed his wrinkled front’…” Fox Hewitt was one of three brothers from Kentucky who served the Confederate cause – one as Adjutant of a Kentucky regiment who was severely wounded and disabled in battle; another, a schoolmaster, as aide to the first Confederate Postmaster General and Adjutant of another Kentucky regiment; and Fox himself as a Confederate Treasury clerk in Richmond until he joined a Virginia battalion in defense of the Confederate capital. Lot Amendments Condition: Yellow stain on envelope; very good. Item number: 238372
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