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Item# 17801
Price: $375
SAN ANTONIO Tex // APR / 12 bold neat cds with matching PAID 10 (CSA Catalog type E, CCV $500) on pristine cover to Mrs. Clara Fentress, Belmont, Texas, from her husband, a Confederate physician. Ex Hill and Camina. $375. Dr. David W. Fentress, a Confederate physician from Texas, exchanged letters with his wife Clara Fentress during the Civil War. He served in the Confederate army in Arkansas (1862-1863), Louisiana (1864), and Texas (1862, 1865).
Dr. Fentress is listed as one of 24 Assistant Surgeons from Texas in the Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 [volume 3], Friday March 13, 1863. Military records are at NARA, M818 roll 8.