| VA3359 |
Stampless Soldiers DUE cover with the Culpeper CH, Va CDS 19 NOV (1862) and handstamp Due 10 Type C. Coarse brown paper cover addressed to Mrs. D. B. Edwards, Benton, Ala. Endorsed across the top “From Lt D. B. Edwards of Co A, 44th Ala Regt, Wrights Brigade, Andersons Division, Longstreets Corps.” Very Fine.
Daniel B. Edwards (1836-1911), a farmer planter from Dallas County, Ala, who owned 6 slaves, enlisted in Co A 44th Ala Inf 3/15/1862
and was elected 2nd Lieut of the company. He was later promoted
Captain of the company 5/16/1864. The 44th Ala Inf was present at
all the major engagements of the Army of Northern Virginia from 2nd
Manassas through to Appomattox and went with Longstreet to Tennessee
and Chickamauga. Lt Edwards served throughout that time but was
captured briefly as a POW at Suffolk, Va 4/19/1863 and paroled and
exchanged from Fort Delaware 5/4/1863 rejoining his unit in time for
Gettysburg. No official record of his ever being wounded in any of
the multiple engagements and battles that he was in except that a story
was told that his bible stopped a minie ball during one of the battles
and saved him from being wounded. The rolls do show him
occasionally absent briefly for various illnesses. After the war, he
returned to his home in Dallas County, Ala. Accompanying the cover is a
copy of a 1911 obituary notice and short biography that appeared in the
Confederate Veteran shortly after his death in 1911 in which the minie ball bible incident is related. |
$250.00 |
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