Confederate Letter Officer Itching for a Fight - Gets Killed in Action

Confederate Letter Officer Itching for a Fight - Gets Killed in Action - Inventory Number: DOC 376

Dawson George June 12, 1861 honorable H. L. Benning Cuthbert, Georgia for fear. You may get your regiment full before you reach our plan on Saturday next. I as captain of the Pascola rifles of this place wrote you that we may get in time we are anxious to get off with our regiment. I hope you will put us down as among the first on your list. I hear Wid hand you (?). We have 83 men in the ranks with four uniform caps, blankets, tents, and a full change of under clothing. You will please put my company down without fail as they are ruling for a fight. I will be very much pleased to meet you in our place on Saturday next and confer with you on this matter.

Yours very respectfully

R. T. Spearman

Dowson Terrace

County, Georgia.

R. T. Spearman:

Residence Terrell County, GA. Enlisted on 7/8/1861 as a Captain. On 7/8/1861, he was commissioned into "H" Co. Georgia13th Infantry.

He died on 11/3/1861

(Died in VA) Sewell's Mountain, VA.  Place of Burial: Dawson, GA)

Sewell's Mountain, VA

Letter was written to:

Henry Lewis Benning (April 2, 1814 – July 10, 1875) was a Confederate general officer during the American Civil War. He also was a lawyer, legislator, and judge on the Georgia Supreme Court. Following the Confederacy's defeat at the end of the war, he returned to his native Georgia, where he lived out the rest of his life. Fort Benning was named in his honor until 2023, when it was redesignated Fort Moore.

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Inventory Number: DOC 376