1st SC Confederate Attempts To Explain Lengthy Absence, Offers An Endorsement For Sale

Confederate G.T. JACKSON [Granville Jackson] enlisted on June 1, 1862, as a 2nd Lieutenant and was commissioned into G Co., SC 1st Cavalry. Single page, 8 x 11 ½, to Lt. Col. Roy. Jackson attempts to explain his lengthy absence from the service as he was being forced before an Army Medical Board, and offers an endorsement (written on the verso).

“As I am threatened with being brought before an Army board, I respectfully make the following statement & enclose a paper containing copies of endorsements on any application for an extension of furlough on recommendation of Med Board with the application itself and an application I have made to appear before a Med Board, with the endorsement on it and the reply returned with it from Col. Black’s Hd Qrters to Major Walker, Comdg 1st Regt SC allowing me the privilege to resign. I do not wish to reform and my application to appear before a board to be retired. It was forwarded within the time ordered by Gen Harder. I have been an officer in my company ever since its organization and will leave it to my immediate commanding officer and others to say whether or not I have discharged my duty. I have never been absent a day without leave. It was my misfortune to be absent about seven months part of the time on sick leave and the balance on furlough from the war department to assist my father in removing his property from Tennessee where it was threatened by the enemy. I was absent from June 9th, 1863, to January 13, 1864. Col. Black may intend the good of the service by having me ordered before an Army Board and I must submit to it. Although I think it is unjust and hard treatment. I do not fear the result.”

Verso contains a statement of support for Jackson.

The 1st South Carolina Cavalry Regiment, also known as Hampton’s Cavalry Brigade, was a prominent Confederate unit organized in June 1862. Led by Col. John L. Black, they fought in Virginia under J.E.B. Stuart at Gettysburg and Brandy Station, later defending Svannah and the Carolinas. The 1st also fought at Brandy Station, Upperville, Bristoe, Kelly’s Ford and Mine Run.

Jackson was a Tennessee native who served with distinction as an officer in the 1st South Carolina Cavalry throughout the Civil War. After the war, Jackson engaged became a farmer and a merchant.

Folds, toning and scattered staining. Top border has chipping, not affecting the writing.

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