Officer's Pay Account form for JG Walker, February 1862

Sold through Ebay on March 29 2003

Description:
(TEXAS RANGER LIEUTENANT COLONEL): A very rare war-date partly-printed D.S. "John G. Walker" adding rank as lieut. colonel of the 8th Texas Cavalry on CSA Officers' Pay Account form, 1p. oblong 4to., [n. p.], Feb. 8, 1862, dispensing pay for December 1861 and January 1862, showing that the two months yielded Walker $325.00.

He is not to be confused with his famous cousin who raised and commanded a Texas brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia. This John George Walker formed and led Company K of the Eighth Texas Cavalry, Terry's Texas Rangers, and was elected lieutenant colonel after the deaths of colonels Benjamin Franklin Terry and Thomas S. Lubbock at the Battle of Woodsonville, Kentucky, Dec. 17, 1861, where he was also wounded.

Slight ink bleed affects signature, else very good. $400-500

Seller:
Alexander Autographs , 100 Melrose Ave, Greenwich, Connecticut

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