Raynors HCA 2016-06
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 6/17/2016
A South Carolinian is AWOL in 1865, 1p. 4to., partly-printed document Confederate "Bureau of Conscription", War Department, Richmond, Va., Feb. 9, 1865 identifying Pvt. Miliun S. Gentry of Co. K, 5th South Carolina Infantry as absent without leave and indicating that he can be found in Spartansburg. A form document addressed to Brig. Gen. James Chestnut issued by Brig. Gen. John S. Preston as superintendent of the Bureau of Conscription. A rare CSA document and the first we have encountered in our nearly twenty years of auctions. Minor insect loss, else VG
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