Stampless Covers - Georgia
11032

Item# 11032

Price: $160

DUE 10 Army field cancel struck on irregularly shaped homemade envelope to Mrs. Charlotta J. Thompson, Alpharetta, Ga with mandated endorsement of W. Thompson in Co G 56th Regt Ga Vols. The 56th was also known as the 55th Ga. from Milton County. In unit records, Private Wilburn Thompson was noted as present “May 3, 1862 but left sick at Dalton, Georgia in 1864, captured there, and sent to Indiana. Never heard from.” An online geneology site reports that he was taken to Camp Morton, Indiana. Wilburn Thompson's wife, Charlotte"Lottie" Segars Thompson drew a widows pension for many years, but never knew what happened to her husband. The family researcher found a book at the GeorgiaArchives that listed Confederate soldiers buried in Northern cemeteries, and it showed that Wilburn Thompson had died of his wounds at Camp Morton,Indiana and was buried 12 August 1864 at Green Lawn Cemetery in Indianapolis.  $160.

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