CIVIL WAR: AFRICAN-AMERICAN REGIMENT IN THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.


Autograph Letter Signed ("Neill S. Brown") to John Reid, reporting somewhat optimistically on the disaster at Chattanooga and noting his son James Trimble is working on a "negro regiment," 4 pp, 8vo, bifolium, Cartersville, GA, December 3, 1863, folded, with original transmittal envelope with a 10-cent blue Jefferson Davis stamp (Scott CSA#12)."It is said that James Trimble is engaged in making up a negro regiment this summer." After a fascinating first-hand account of the Confederate defeat at Chattanooga, former Tennessee Governor and influential politician Neill S. Brown notes the creation of an African-American regiment within the Confederate Army.