He Received Thirteen Wounds During the Civil War Including Five at Gettysburg

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FORNEY, William Henry (1823-1894) was an Alabama legislator, a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War and U.S. Representative from Alabama from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1893. He was left on the field at Gettysburg with multiple wounds, captured and remained a Union prisoner of war for more than a year from July 5, 1863 to August 4, 1864.Autograph Letter Signed "W.H. Forney" 1pp quarto, October 30, 1893, on War Department, Gettysburg Battlefield Commission, letterhead, addressed to Col. Nicholson, and reads "I hand you a form of the Deed we submit to the War Dept. for approval to be used by our Commission in the purchase of rights of way for the avenues along the battle lines & c...." Fine condition.

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