2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Manuscript Document Signed, 2p. folio, Decatur County, Tennessee, November 6, 1865, and reads “John M. Autry of Decaturville in said County and State aged Eighteen years who being duly sworn according to Law declares that he is not indebted or accountable to the United States on any account whaterver, and he further states that he is the identical John M. Autry who was private of Company (E) in the second Regiment of Tennessee Mounted Infantry that he volunteered at Decaturville in the State of Tennessee...he was captured by the Rebel General Forrests Command was sent directly to the Rebel Prison at Andersonville, Georgia, that he was held a prisoner of war from said third day of April 1864 to the twenty ninth of April AD 1865 at which last mentioned time he was Exchanged. That after he was so exchanged, he was sent to the United States Hospital at Indianapolis in the State of Indiana then being sick at the time black Scurvey and Diarhea and unable to do duty from which Hospital he was sent to the Hospital at Memphis, Tennessee, where he remained sick in said Hospital until the 7th day of July 1865 at which time he was given by General Smith commander of the Post at Memphis a furlough to come hom...He further states that he has never received any pay for his service whist in the service of the United States as aforesaid nor any commutation money for the regular allowance for clothing to which he was indebted that he never received but one suit of clothes from the Quartermaster...” VG.
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