Civil War Confederate Southern Belle Widow Occupied North Carolina Letter 1864

ORIGINAL HISTORICAL EPHEMERA CIVIL WAR NORTH CAROLINA CONFEDERATE WIDOW OF CAPTAIN ABSALOM K. SIMONTON RECEIVES A LETTER OF CONDOLENCE FROM HER SOUTHERN BELLE FRIEND MOLLIE F. FOSTER MENTIONING HER POW BROTHER'S IMPRISONMENT ON JOHNSON ISLAND & BEMOANING THE HARSH TREATMENT SOUTHERNERS ARE RECEIVING BY UNION SOLDIERS RAIDS, BUT PRAISING THE FREQUENT VISITS & SERENADES BY COLONEL JOHN S. MOSBY AND 'HIS BAND OF MERRY MEN' ORIGINAL ANTIQUE HANDWRITTEN LETTER READS IN PART: Feb. 27, 1864 "We live now subject day and night to the raids of the hated & detested foe- we cannot ride out without the feat and probability of returning unhorsed-  Our citizens are arrested on the slightest pretext (and sometimes without any) and carried off to languish in prison for months together. We are so cut off from our people that 'Greenbacks' is the currency of this part of the country- and money being rated by some at five cents in the dollar. Notwithstanding this we see Col. Mosby an