[CIVIL WAR]. Manuscript Confederate pass "to go to Manassas Junction and return." Signed by Richard Irby as 1st lieutenant, 15 September 1861.
Sale 1344 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography
May 31, 2024
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Live / Cincinnati
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[CIVIL WAR]. Manuscript Confederate pass "to go to Manassas Junction and return." Signed by Richard Irby as 1st lieutenant, 15 September 1861.
5 1/2 x 4 1/4 in., creasing, staining, wear to edges and corners. Undersigned by "C. Morgan" as aide-de-camp to General Arnold Elzey. Addressed to Colonel R. E. Withers, 18th Virginia Volunteers.
In full: "Private Hatchell has leave to go to the Manassas Junction and return."
Richard Irby (1835-1902) enlisted as a first lieutenant on 22 April 1861. He was commissioned into Company G of the 18th Virginia Infantry that same day. He was promoted to captain on 29 March 1862, and listed as wounded from a shot in the breast at Second Manassas on 30 August of that year. He was ultimately paroled on 19 April 1865 at Jones House, Virginia.
After the war, Irby wrote a history of the 18th Virginia Infantry Regiment, also known as the "Nottoway Grays," along with other books. He also served as Secretary and Treasurer of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, VA.
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