AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO HIS FATHER, BY CONFEDERATE LIEUTENANT M.R. HAILEY, 154TH TENNESSEE VOLUNTEERS, EXPRESSING ANGER AND DISMAY THAT "OUR COMPANY HAS BEEN OVERRUN BY LINCOLNITES."
Decatur [Tennessee]: March 16, 1862. 4pp bifolium, each page 3-3/4" x 5-3/4." Entirely in ink manuscript, faded but legible. Good. M[adison] R. Hailey [1843-1862] was from McNairy County, where he joined Company I, 154th Tennessee Volunteers, in May 1861. He was the son of William Carrol Hailey [1822-1887], a farmer..... More