James Lipscomb 2nd SC Cav, Butler's Cavalry Brig. - Hamilton's Crossing 1/2/1864

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From the personal wartime papers of Dr. Theodore. A. LaFar of Charleston, South Carolina (born 14 October 1831 in Charleston and died 28 December 1912 in Chattachoochee, Florida and buried in the French Protestant Huguenot Cemetery in Charleston).
A Google search reveals the 1890 proceedings of the South Carolina legislature that accepted four South Carolina Confederate Battle Flags from Dr. LaFar on December 22, 1890 .  According to the minutes of the Legislature, LaFar had fled Richmond on April 2, 1865 and taken the flags with him.  The Legislature recognized and summarized his service as Director of the South Carolina Hospital Bureau ("SCHB").  Duties of the SCHB included "forwarding packages to soldiers in the field, establishing state hospitals, aiding prisoners in the hands of the enemy, receive the wounded after battle and to 'succor' a South Carolina soldier wherever found."
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ounted on one sheet, then mounted on another in the late 19th Century.  Small piece of the letter missing in the lower left, probably contemporaneously.
A letter (not a copy) directly from the headquarters Butler's Cavalry Brigade while apparently in winter quarters.  Crute's Confederate Staff Officers lists James N. Lipscomb as a Captain serving as Brigadier General Matthew Butler's Assistant Adjutant General from September 1, 1863.  Crute's other book, Units of the Confederate Army, lists Butler's command as part of the 2nd South Carolina Cavalry.
Text as follows:
Hd Qrs Butlers Cav. Brigade
Near Hamilton's Crossing
Janury 2d 1864
Sir
Genl Young directs me to say
that he received the Fifty Blankets
sent to him for the South Carolina Troops
under his command.  They have been
divided between the 1st & 2d Regts of
So Ca. Cav.  The Genl directs to
you on his own account & on
behalf of his command, thanks
for the donation:  It was extremely
well timed for many are
destitute & the suffering is great
for the want of Blankets.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
Jas. N. Lipscomb
A. A. Genl.
To:
Dr. T. A. Lafar
Supt So Ca Depot
Richmond
Va.
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