RARE 1865 Confederate Broadside Document, Civil War - $2,700 - (Butternut, WI)

CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA. Printed broadside: A Message from the Army of the Valley of Virginia...Camp Smith's Brigade, February 10, 1865. {Richmond, 1865}. 1 page, small After a Confederate peace commission was rejected by President Lincoln, Smith’s brigade (including the 60th Virginia) had a meeting and proposed the following resolutions on February 10, 1865. These resolutions help to understand who these men were and what they were truly fighting for, which was freedom and Independence of suppression. A STIRRING STATEMENT OF LAST-DITCH CONFEDERATE DEFIANCE Two months before the surrender at Appomattox Courthouse, the men of Colonel Thomas Smith's brigade, Wharton's Division of Lt. General Jubal A. Early's Army of the Valley, issue a defiantly worded statement of their unswerving dedication to the cause, despite the shadow of defeat that was now looming above them. Smith's Brigade, compromising the 36th, 45th, and 60th Virginia regiments, had played a significant role at the Battle of Cold Harbor and in Early's late-war campaign against Washington D.C. Here, after suffering severe losses in the Shenandoah Valley battles of the previous fall, the men of the brigade make a clear statement of their unwavering rebel resolve: "Whereas, the arms of the Confederate States, during the recent campaigns, have sustained serious reverses, which have caused an undue despondency in some portions of our country, and created an unpatriotic doubt as the final result of our struggle, and induced some to entertain the treasonable thought of making terms...we...do resolve... I. That...after four years of terrible ware with the savage foe who seeks our subjection, we are still firm in our determination to achieve our independence or to perish nobly struggling for it... II. That in the cause of our country is involved all we hold dear; that it has been consecrated by the blood of those heroes who have fallen in its defense... III. That whilst we will hail with joy that peace w…

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