2020-01 Putnal
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/18/2020
Signed, 1p, octavo, Camp near Fayetteville, Penna. June 30, 1863, and reads "Whereas Private Wm. Hall Co (H) 48 Geo. Regt. Ga. Vols. and John N. Thompson Co (G) 20 Regt. Geo. Vols. desires a transfer to each other's company and they most respectfully ask that they be exchanged." Signed by William Hall with endorsement beneath by Alexander C. Flanders, Capt. Co H 48 Regt. Ga. Vols. Autograph Note Signed on verso by renowned relic collector Edmund Mills Barton, an agent for the Sanitary Commission and cousin of Clara Barton mentioned in her book. Alexander Chester Flanders from Emanuel County, Georgia, was commissioned 2nd Lt. on March 4, 1862 in the 48th Georgia Infantry, he was promoted to captain, wounded in action at Spotsylvania, and would surrender at Appomattox. The 48th Georgia was brigaded under Generals Ripley, A.R. Wright, and Sorrel. It served on many battlefields of the Army of Northern Virginia from the Seven Days' Battles to Cold Harbor, then was involved in the long Petersburg siege south of the James River and the Appomattox Campaign. This regiment reported 33 casualties at Mechanicsville, 44 at Malvern Hill, 61 at Second Manassas, and 72 at Chancellorsville. It lost more than fifty-five percent of the 295 at Gettysburg, and there were 32 disabled at Manassas Gap. On April 9, 1865 it surrendered with 13 officers, and 193 men.
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