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CSA #1 Stone 1 (not plated) (4-Margin) pen-cancelled and manuscript postal markings at upper left "Barboursville
(Va) (Orange County) Jany 22 (1862)." Military Address to Capt William
S. Parran, Com F, 13th Va Regt, Manassas Junction, Va." Very Fine.
William
Sellman Parran (1834-1862) of Barboursville, Va, enrolled in VMI in
1852 but was only there a short time and did not graduate. His
biography says he transferred to West Point in 1853 but also did not
graduate but there is no actual record of his West Point attendance. He
later attended both Winchester (Va) Medical College and the Baltimore
Medical College (now the University of Maryland) and graduated as an MD
in April 1857. In 1859 he organized and became the Captain of a battery
of militia artillery. In April 1861 he took his battery to Harpers
Ferry where troops were organizing and was mustered into service with
his unit as Capt of Co F 13th Va Inf
4/17/1861. In December 1861, he bcame ill with jaundice and resigned
his commission in April 1862. But he recovered enough to serve as the
Assistant Surgeon (contract physician) of an artillery battalion
(Courtney's Battalion of Artillery). Dr. Parran was on the field at the
Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) 9/17/1862 and was Killed-in-Action in
the battle while serving as a volunteer gunner in an undermanned
artillery battery of the Washington Artillery. |
$350.00 |
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