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17879

Item# 17879

Price: $200

CSA 7-R, 5¢ blue pair tied blue TUSKEGREE / ALA double-circle postmark (degraded color) and ms. “March the 3d/63” on semi-official imprinted Confederate States of America, War Department, Quartermaster’s Department. [Official Business.] (WD-QM-05, CV $400) to Cadet H. Paine, Tuscaloosa, Ala. 1985 PF certificate. $200.  

Tuscaloosa Cadets. It spring of 1865. Federal armies were tramping throughout the southern states, burning, pillaging, and destroying anything of value, with little resistance from the remnants of the Confederate army. In late March of 1865, Union General John T. Croxton was given orders to take his cavalry force of 1,500 troopers to Tuscaloosa and "destroy the bridge, factories, mills, university, and whatever else may be of benefit to the rebel cause." Three hundred young men from the Alabama Corps of Cadets, ranging in ages from 15 to 20 years old, were all that stood before the invading force. At the start of the war the University of Alabama converted to a military form of governance, with its primary duty to produce new officers for the Confederate Army. The university soon became the "West Point of the South," supplying Confederate armies with 7 generals, 25 colonels, 14 lieutenant colonels, 21 majors, 125 captains, 273 staff and other commissioned officers and 294 private soldiers.

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