GA1293

CSA 3XU1 Albany, Ga PAID 5 Provisional 24 DEC 1861 with Greenish-Blue postal markings. Manuscript "Official" at the top left corner. Commercially made cover with a dark blue interior. Military Address to Capt Wm D. Mitchel(l), Camp Lawton, Savannah, Georgia. Cover reduced a bit at the top where opened into the top of the postmark. Still a very clean appearance. Cover is listed in the Crown census of Georgia provisionals. Ex-Agre, CSA Cert 1991. William Dickey Mitchell (1839-1892) entered service 10/1/1864 as Captain of Co I 29th Ga Inf. He was promoted Lt Col 5/10/1862 and Col of the regiment 1/19/1864. He is listed as wounded at Chickamauga 9/19/1863 losing an arm, and captured as a POW at Nashville 12/15/1864. He was confined at Johnson's Island until released 7/25/1865. After the war, he practiced as a lawyer in Thomasville, Georgia. Could find nothing on a Camp Lawton near Savannah in 1861. May have been a short-lived Camp of Instruction.

$400.00

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