2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Scarce Confederate Document Signed, “Wm. G. Bentley Majr &QM” 1p. small quarto, January 29, 1864, Richmond, Virginia, on fine Confederate States of America lettersheet, being the issuance of “Three Battle Flags” to Captain T.W. Williams AQM of Young’s Brigade. Fine. In the great struggle beginning in the spring of 1864 General Pierce Manning Butler Young’s command was mainly composed of Georgians, the two Carolina regiments being replaced by the Seventh Georgia cavalry and Millen's Twentieth battalion, later the brigade consisting of the Seventh, Ninth and Tenth Georgia regiments and the Davis legion. General Young played a prominent part in the campaigning of 1864 in Virginia, and when Hampton succeeded Stuart in general command of cavalry, he temporarily took the place of the famous South Carolinian as division commander. In November he was sent to Augusta to gather reinforcements and aid in the defense of that city, threatened by Sherman.
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