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Autograph letter signed "G. T. Beauregard" to the Confederate Agent for the Caribbean, Col. Charles J. Helm, thanking him for the donation of wool socks.
Charleston, 28 January 1863. 1 p., Head Quarters Department of South Carolina, Geogria & Florida stationery (250 x 204 mm). Endorsed on verso by Helm. Condition: minor foxing and light toning. a cordial letter to Col. Charles J. Helm in Havana, Cuba sending thanks to a Miss Newcomb for her donation of wool socks to the Confederate Army commenting of deprivations that Southern troops had to endure during the winter. He writes: "Permit me to thank you, & through you Miss Phebe M. Newcombe for the woolen socks she has been kind enough to make & to send for our gallant soldiers now battling manfully for our rights & our Independence regardless of the snows of Virginia & Tennessee, alltho' in many instances shoeless & without blankets! I shall send the package of socks received to the Washington Art'y of New Orleans, which has such good service in many a glorious field since the war commenced -- its members are now exiles from their homes & can no longer receive those comforts they stand so much in need of…" Helm (1817 1868), a Kentucky native, was U.S. consul general in Cuba until 1861, when he resigned and became a special agent of the Confederacy in the West Indies. On the verso of the letter, Helm writes, "For Miss Newcomb, with the Compliments of Mr. Helm."