A full length portrait of a young recruit, in full blue uniform with stiff yellow cuffs and collar, yellow buckle engraved "CS," next to a Texas Star, [c.1864], watercolor and ink on paper, 8.5 x 13 in, inscribed at bottom, "Presented, M. T. Herndon, Co. G, Border's Reg.t," separation and loss at folds. WITH: Autograph Letter Signed ("Florence Herndon"), 1p, 4to, Evergreen, TX, June 16 1862, to Hallie Sproull of Harrisburg, TX, reporting, "Brother Sandy and Son Herndon have both joined Capt. Bennett's Company..." AND WITH: Autograph Letter Signed ("Emma Rayburn"), 2 pp recto and verso, 8vo, Quintana, TX, December 31st, 1864, to Hallie Sproull, Harrisburg, TX. Provenance: from a Texas collection. The 1864 letter reads, in part: "We heard that 17 thousand Yankees landed at the Rio Grande ready to march into Texas but I hope it is not so ... We are going to have a big drill today and General Wharton is coming down to make speech to the soldiers and try to get some of them to volunteer..." Border's Cavalry Battalion was "probably organized early in 1864 from potential conscripts who had evaded the Confederate draft by service with the Texas State forces" (Wright and Simpson, Texas in the War, 1861-1865, p 126). This full length portrait of a young man is a rare visual record of Confederate resistance near the Galveston coast.
A full length portrait of a young recruit, in full blue uniform with stiff yellow cuffs and collar, yellow buckle engraved "CS," next to a Texas Star, [c.1864], watercolor and ink on paper, 8.5 x 13 in, inscribed at bottom, "Presented, M. T. Herndon, Co. G, Border's Reg.t," separation and loss at folds. WITH: Autograph Letter Signed ("Florence Herndon"), 1p, 4to, Evergreen, TX, June 16 1862, to Hallie Sproull of Harrisburg, TX, reporting, "Brother Sandy and Son Herndon have both joined Capt. Bennett's Company..." AND WITH: Autograph Letter Signed ("Emma Rayburn"), 2 pp recto and verso, 8vo, Quintana, TX, December 31st, 1864, to Hallie Sproull, Harrisburg, TX. Provenance: from a Texas collection. The 1864 letter reads, in part: "We heard that 17 thousand Yankees landed at the Rio Grande ready to march into Texas but I hope it is not so ... We are going to have a big drill today and General Wharton is coming down to make speech to the soldiers and try to get some of them to volunteer..." Border's Cavalry Battalion was "probably organized early in 1864 from potential conscripts who had evaded the Confederate draft by service with the Texas State forces" (Wright and Simpson, Texas in the War, 1861-1865, p 126). This full length portrait of a young man is a rare visual record of Confederate resistance near the Galveston coast.
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