Raynors HCA 2017-12
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/7/2017
A great manuscript Confederate POW document, 7pp. folio, with 4to. docket sheet bearing the signatures of Robert E. Lee’s a. a. g. & Inspector General Col. ROBERT H. CHILTON and Brigadier General JOHN H. WINDER, [n. p., but near Fredericksburg, Va.,], entitled: "List of Prisoners Paroled by D. B. Bridgford by order of Lt. Genl. [Stonewall] Jackson." The document contains a list of approximately 210 released Union soldiers who were declared paroled during the Fredericksburg campaign between November 13 through December 17, 1862 by order of General "Stonewall" Jackson. Their parole date, company and regiment are shown. Included in the group are Berdan Sharpshooters, musicians, zouaves, an aide de camp to General Whipple, Bucktail, a newspaper Agent named "D. C. Georgia", along with notable future anarchist activist, Dyer D. Lum of the 121st New York Infantry. Docketing begins on January 1, 1863 and continues for a three week period during which time the Confederate bureaucracy attempt to locate the men's fate. On January 1, 1863, Col. Robert H. Chilton, Robert E. Lee's inspector general begins the docket exchange by stating that he received this list from General Jackson after sending a captain to take charge of the prisoners. Secretary of War James Seddon gets involved and his adjutant general Major Charles H. Lee, referred the case to Agent Robert Ould for investigation. Finally, on January 20th, after going through Ould's hands Brigadier General John H. Winder confidently applies his signature to his docket while declaring "…these men have all been delivered here." ROBERT H. CHILTON (1815-1879) Confederate brigadier general, Lee's chief of staff. He signed the famous "lost order" of the Antietam campaign and led forces at the Wilderness and Spotsylvania. VG
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