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CONFEDERATE PASS SIGNED BY GEN. GEORGE PICKETT DURING THE GETTYSBURG CAMPAIGN; ALSO SIGNED BY MOXLEY SORREL (LONGSTREET’S AAG) AND WALTER TAYLOR (LEE’S AAG)

This document is handwritten on 7 ¾” x 6” lined paper, front and back.  All is clearly legible though some of the ink is a bit faded.  Three vertical and one center horizontal fold lines.  Old tape repair along center horizontal fold on reverse; lower half of reverse has residue from having been attached to some type of backing at some point.

This pass was issued to Richard W. Avery and signed by Confederate General George Pickett and other Confederate notables.  Text reads as follows:

Obverse

HdQrs Pickett’s Division

June 13^th, 1863

Private Richard Avery courier at these HdQrs is detailed to proceed to Taylorsville for the Medical Desk and papers that were accidently [sic] stored at that place. Also to go on to Richmond for the purpose of procuring for the officers mess certain small stores which it is impossible to get at this point. He will return with out unnecessary delay.

G. E. Pickett

Maj Genl

Cmdg

 

Transport from Command to Culpepper C. H.

D. H. Wood

Maj & QMG

 

Reverse

HeadQtrs 1^st Army Corps

June 13, 1863

Respectfully forwarded Approved

By command of Lt. Gen. Longstreet

G. M. Sorrel AA Genl

 

Approved

By order of Genl Lee

W. Taylor

AAGenl

June 13, 1863

 

The document is signed by Gen. Pickett, Major David Henry Wood, Gilbert Moxley Sorrel (Aide and AAG to Gen. Longstreet), and Walter Herron Taylor (Aide and AAG to Gen. Lee).

Richard W. Avery (1839-1899) enlisted on May 22, 1861 at Alexandria, VA as a Private. On that date he mustered into Co. A, 17^th Virginia Infantry. Records show that he was wounded on May 31, 1862 at Seven Pines, VA. He was detailed on 7/15/62 as a clerk at Pickett’s headquarters. He returned to duty after absence on 2/15/65. He took the Oath of Allegiance on 5/15/65.

George Edward Pickett (1825-1875) was a career US Army officer who became a major general in the Confederate army and is best remembered for being one of the commanders of Pickett’s Charge, the bloody Confederate assault on the Union lines on the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg.

David Henry Wood (1826-1876) was a clerk in the Pension Office in 1846 and a clerk in the War Department in 1848 in Washington, D.C. By 1860 he, his wife & children were living in Washington, he working as a clerk. He is later mentioned as having worked for the Virginia Government and the Confederacy before being appointed a Transportation Agent and then a Transportation Quartermaster. With the rank of Major, Wood spent the entire war arranging transportation and running the Transportation Office in Richmond. On May 16, 1865 he signed his federal parole.

Gilbert Moxley Sorrel (1838-1901) was a senior officer of the CS Army who commanded infantry in the Eastern Theater of the war. In 1861 Moxley left his job as a bank clerk in Savannah, GA, taking part in the CS capture of Fort Pulaski as a private in the Georgia Hussars. With letters of introduction from Col. Jordan from P.G.T. Beauregard’s staff and a friend of his father, he reported to Brig. Gen. James Longstreet at Manassas, VA on 7/21/61, and began serving as a volunteer aide-de-camp. Longstreet wrote that his young aide “came into the battle as gaily as a beau, and seemed to receive orders which threw him into more exposed positions with particular delight.” On September 11, 1861 Sorrel received his commission as captain and was assigned as General Longstreet’s adjutant general. He was promoted to major on June 24, 1862 and to lieutenant colonel on 6/18/63. He served under Longstreet until October 1864, when he was appointed brigadier general. Sorrel then commanded Sorrel’s Brigade of Maj. Gen. William Mahone’s division at Petersburg and Hatcher’s Run, and was wounded in both battles.

Walter Herron Taylor (1838-1916) was a banker, lawyer, soldier, politician, author and railroad executive from Norfolk, VA. During the Civil War he became a key aide to Gen. Robert E. Lee and rose to the rank of Colonel. After the war, Taylor became a senator in the Virginia General Assembly, and attorney for the Norfolk and Western Railway and later the Virginia Railway.  [ld] [ph:L]

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