Lawyer, teacher, and Confederate officer (1823-1895) most active in the Virginia area. ALS signed “J. D. Imboden,” one page both sides, 8 x 10.5, September 17, 1894. Letter to fellow Confederate veteran Absalom Koiner, in part: "I beg to thank you for a copy rec'd several weeks ago, of your 'Genealogy' of the Koiner family in America. I got it out of the mail about noon to 'glance' over & lay it aside for a more 'convenient season' for careful perusal. But because so interested that by midnight of that day I had read every page of the book…You have done a great public service in so carefully preparing it. I have always known that your great ancestor emigrants & mine, married sisters in Pa. and that therefore there was a tic of blood kindred between us. We have sprung from the 'bone & sinew' of American manhood and womanhood, and not from the cavalier stock that have assumed all the honor of Virginia characteristics…unlike the Lewis's & Peyton's and Preston's of the older times, whose descendants, as a rule, are like the Irishman's crop of potatoes, 'the best part underground,' there has been no deterioration in the German seed transplanted to Va. over 100 years ago." In fine condition. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope addressed in Imboden's hand, incorporating his signature, "J. D. Imboden," in the return address area.
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