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IDENTIFIED CONFEDERATE DESERTER ARREST WARRANT –
SOLDIER AND REGIMENTAL COMMANDING OFFICER NAMED FROM THE
1ST LOUISIANA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, DATED 1862:
A hand written arrest warrant, issued by Col. W.G.
Vincent, the regimental commander of the 1st
Regiment of Louisiana Volunteer Infantry, for the arrest
of a deserter, Private T. H. S. Boyd, dated March 23,
1862. The arrest warrant was issued at Camp Vincent and
the text states that a copy of the warrant had been
provided to the Provost Marshall of Richmond. A search
of the National Park Service Civil War Soldier’s data
base reveals a T.H.S. Boyd listed as a Private, and
a Col. W.G.Vincent,
in the 1st
Louisiana Volunteer Infantry, C.S.A The 1st
Louisiana Volunteer Infantry was organized in April of
1861, was attached to the Army of Northern Virginia and
participated in the Seven Day’s Battle, Cold Harbor,
Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville,
Gettysburg, Mine Run and was present at Appomattox at
the end of the war. The warrant is written in ink on
lined ledger paper measuring 9 ¾” by 7 ½”, and is full
form with no loss of text. The document is separated at
the fold across the page, approximately 1/3 the height
of the page from the bottom, but this separation is
clean with no ragged edges and no text is loss.
Mounting the document in a fixed frame would render this
separation unnoticeable. This is a historic document
contains sufficient information to allow you to fully
research the two men named. Such Confederate documents
survive in far fewer numbers than the Federal
counterparts, this specimen recently surfacing from an
old Texas collection, and the content makes this
document particularly desirable. $500
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