Confederacy, 8-Star Confederate Flag, unlisted red, white and blue design of small extended flag on lettersheet with "Winchester Va., July 17th 1861" dateline, four page letter from A.N. Steele to Ellen with some excellent military battle content including "intense excitement…Genl. Patterson (Abolitionist) was reported to be marching on this place with forty thousand men" verse General Johnson at Martinsburg twenty miles from us, "We have something over twenty thousand men here and had them all on the field yesterday and last night when I was standing I could see eight thousand at our sight we expect an attack every minute…They are certain to have a big fight but where or when it will come off I can't say…", a Very Fine and unlisted patriotic flag design. C.S.A. Catalog No. F8-5 var.  Estimate $500 - 750. AN EXCELLENT LETTER OF THE MILITARY ACTION AND STRATEGY AT MARTINSBURG VA. IN JULY 1861. Union troops under General Robert Patterson would leave Martinsburg for Charles Town on the day this letter was written, July 17th 1861. Martinsburg would remain in Confederate hands until March 2, 1862. $0 (Image)