While her brothers and father served in the Confederate army, Mollie Ragan MacGill Rosenberg (1839-1917) nursed wounded soldiers in her family’s homes in Hagerstown, Maryland, and Richmond, Virginia. She was a close friend of Fannie Granbury, who stayed with the family while her husband, Major Hiram B. Granbury, was held as a prisoner at Fort Warren. She went on to establish the Galveston Veuve Jefferson Davis chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1895, serving as its president until her death. Original handcrafted small cloth haversack-style pouch, measuring approximately 4 x 3.75, featuring a design with crossed Confederate flags, a star, the years of the Civil War, and the words “C. S. A.” and “Lone State.” Reverse is inscribed by Rosenberg, “From M. R. M. R., Oct. 8th, 1903.” Includes an original descriptive printed slip, in part: “This miniature Haversack or Confederate Souvenir is hand-made and hand-painted by R. D. Moseley, an old Veteran of the Lost Cause.” Scattered soiling and a few loose threads, otherwise fine condition. Accompanied by lengthy research material about her father, Dr. Charles MacGill, a prominent physician and well-known southern sympathizer. Rosenberg later gave these as gifts to the members of her Veuve Jefferson Davis chapter. A great relic of a bygone era, especially interesting due to its firsthand Confederate associations. RR Auction COA.
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