Confederate officer and journalist (1840–1921) who served under Nathan Bedford Forrest. War-dated ALS, two pages on two adjoining sheets, 7.25 x 9.25, October 15, [1863]. Letter to General Leonidas Polk. In part: "I have been steering the Rebel, as you have doubtless observed, among the breakers of Bragg's wrath; and as the slightest indiscretion might mar a delicate, but perfectly defined programme, I have not felt it expedient to risk a day's absence from my post; hence my non appearance at St. Canton…I have twice forced to stultify my feeling and my judgment in the support of Gen. Bragg, I can do so no longer; and my mind once made up to open hostility, I can not go by halves. If all the presses of the country who fear to indulge more than a quaking paragraph now and then, would sustain me with boldness, but with dignity, the influence would be irresistible. We should soon see the end of a mad and bad man, whose imbecility and violent temper have so largely damaged us. I trust, my general, you will dismiss any apprehension of any attempt to make your good name and cause, the prop of a determined assault upon Gen. Bragg. I should blush did I think myself capable of seeking support beyond the bare issue involved in his want of capacity and his rapacious despotism." In very good condition, with intersecting folds with some small edge separations and paper loss at the lower left (affecting a few words), and a few other specks of paper loss throughout the second page. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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