Col. Joseph Walker South Carolina Vol HQ Bratton's Brigade Nov 11 1864 letter

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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.  Tape stain on the rear of the mounting page.  Heavy folds in the letter (not on the mounting pages, possible separation at those folds.
A letter (not a copy) directly from the headquarters of Bratton's Brigade, dated November 11, 1864.  I believe this dateline places this unit in Petersburg, Virginia in the lines there.  Colonel Joseph Walker is listed as a field commander in Crute's Units of the Confederate Army.  Krick's Lee's Colonel's states that walker was born in Spartanburg on May 18, 1935 and that he joined on April 13, 1861 as Captain of Company K, of the 5th South Carolina and that he became Lt. Colonel of the Palmetto Sharpshooters on April 15, 1862 and became a full Colonel on July 22, 1862.  He did survive the war and became a six-term mayor of Spartanburg.
Text as follows:
Head Quarters Brattons Brigade
Nov 11th 1862
Sir:
I beg to acknowledge to
the So. Ca. Central Association, thru
you, its efficient, courteous, and in-
tiring agent, its many and kind
services for the past three years to the
Brigade, now under my command.
Your undertaking, like every
work of philanthropy, is without ap-
aren't recompense, but surely the
grateful thanks and blessings of the
many thousand sick & suffering soldiers
who have received benefits at your hands
are no common reward.
I am Dr. Very Gratefully
Yours & c.
Joseph Walker
SCV Col. Comdg
To: Dr. Lafar
So Ca Central Assn.
Richmond, Va.
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