July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
War-date Confederate partly-printed Special Orders signed “Saml. W. Melton” who served on the staffs of General Gustavus Smith and General Milledge Bonham, 1p. folio, “Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office”, Richmond, Virginia, June 25, 1864, and reads “Major Henry C. Semple, Artillery P.A.C.S is relieved from duty with the Army of Tennessee and will report to Major General D.H. Maury, Commanding District of the Gulf for assignment...” with rare raised seal of the Provost Marshall’s Office of Montgomery, Alabama. Fine. Semple’s-Goldthwaite’s Battery completed its organization at Montgomery, Alabama, in March, 1862, with men from Montgomery, Ala. After serving at Mobile it was involved in the Kentucky Campaign and the Battle of Murfreesboro. Assigned to T.R. Hotchkiss’ Battalion of Artillery, the battery participated in various conflicts of the Army of Tennessee from Chickamauga to Nashville. In 1865 the company was ordered to North Carolina but made it as far as Augusta, Georgia before surrendering. The unit was commanded by Captains Richard W. Goldthwaite and Henry C. Semple.
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