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CSA #56x2 5c Red Memphis Provisional (4-Margin but a little close at the bottom) tied by the Memphis, Ten CDS 10 NOV (1861). Military Address to Adjt C. W. Frazer, 21st Regiment T V (Tennessee Volunteers), Columbus KY. Cover goes into the part of Kentucky that was under Confederate occupation November 1861 - February 1862. Very Fine. Ex-Weil. Charles Wesley Frazer (1834-1897), a lawyer by profession, entered service as Captain of Co I 21st Ten Inf 6/14/1861. He is listed as wounded at Belmont (Mississippi County, Missouri) 11/7/1861. This small battle was the first combat test for Union Brig-Gen U. S. Grant. He is listed as wounded a second time at Murfreesboro (Ten) 12/31/1862. At some point he was promoted Major. He was captured as a POW 9/15/1863 (place not stated) and confined at Johnson's Island for the remainder of the war until released 6/11/1865. After the war, he lived in Memphis. His brother was CSA Brig-Gen John Wesley Frazer (1827-1906).

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