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Item# 19488
Price: $400
Military courier hand-carried 12-star Flag and Cannon patriotic cover (CC CN-1C) with verse, strongly inked Dispatch June 20 at top, addressed to Emanuel Parker Esq., Camden, So Ca, with soldier endorsement of E.W. Parker, S.C. Cavalry at upper left, Very Fine. $400.
Eli Wood Parker (1837-1924) served in Company E, SC Holcombe Legion Cavalry, redesignated as Company H, 7th SC Cavalry 18 March 1864, Army of Northern Virginia. Enlisted 17 March 1862 at Camden, S.C., detailed as hay cutter, admitted to CSA General Hospital Danville, Va., 10 April 1865, no capture, parole or later record found. His father was Emanuel Parker (1814-1878). Eli is buried in Ridgeway, S.C., with fifteen children listed on his Find A Grave website with births ranging from 1862 to 1889 and two wives. Busy man!