Featherston, Winfield Scott, 1820-1891 to Thomas M. Jack
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09005 Author/Creator: Featherston, Winfield Scott, 1820-1891 Place Written: Demopolis, Alabama Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 8 March 1864 Pagination: 2 p. : docket ; Height: 25 cm, Width: 20 cm Order a Copy
Addressed to Jack as the Assistant Adjutant General to General Polk. Confederate Brigadier General Featherston requests bayonets for his troops. States that he has heard there are bayonets on hand but that they were not issued because it would take some labor to fit the bayonets to guns. Questions the wisdom of this. "We owe our success on many well fought battlefields to the use of the Bayonet. The Yankeys will not stand a charge when we have Bayonets; they might do so, if they knew we were without them." Marked on verso as forwarded 22 March 1864. With signed endorsement by Jack on verso dated 25 March 1864 stating measures will be taken to have the command supplied with bayonets.
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