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Stampless
Soldiers DUE cover with a partial strike of the Goldsborough
NC CDS 10 FEB and handstamp DUE 10. The
Due 10 handstamp is interesting as it resembles the Type E handstamp
except that the "10" is turned on its side. This handstamp
variation is not cataloged in this configuration.
Addressed to Mrs. Mary I. Wills, Whartons Switch, Bedford County, Va.
Wharton's Switch is not a listed USA or CSA post office in Bedford
County, but sounds like it has something to do with the railroad as the
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad went through that county. Endorsed at
right "Pvt C. A. Wills Co I 1st Va Regt." Exceptionally
clean cover.
Charles A. Wills enlisted at Bedford, Virginia, for the war in
Co I 1st Va Inf
(Williams Rifles) 2/9/1863. He took part in the Battle of Gettysburg
but spent the rest of 1863 sick at the Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond.
Records show that he had rejoined his unit by February 1864. He is
listed as wounded at Drewry's Bluff 5/16/1864. There his records
end. No explanation has to how, why, or exactly when Pvt Wills
was
in the Goldsborough NC area as his unit was apparently never there.
Neither the addressee, Mary Wills presumed to be Pvt
Wills' mother, or Pvt Wills himself appear on the Federal
Census
of 1860 or any subsequent censuses that I could find. |
$150.00 |
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