CONFEDERATE ADJUTANT & INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE DOCUMENT – 45TH NORTH CAROLINA OFFICER TRANSFERRED TO THE INVALID CORPS, MARCH 30, 1865 – WOUNDED AT GETTYSBURG JULY 1, 1863

CONFEDERATE ADJUTANT & INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE DOCUMENT – 45TH NORTH CAROLINA OFFICER TRANSFERRED TO THE INVALID CORPS, MARCH 30, 1865 – WOUNDED AT GETTYSBURG JULY 1, 1863

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This is a scarce late-war Confederate document issued from the Adjutant and Inspector General's Office in Richmond. It is dated March 30, 1865, just days before the evacuation of Richmond and the collapse of the Confederate government. It concerns a captain of Company K, 45th North Carolina Infantry, who had been transferred to the Confederate Invalid Corps.

The Confederate Invalid Corps was established by act of Congress in February 1864. It provided a place for officers and men who had been disabled by wounds or disease but could still serve in a limited capacity, such as post, hospital, and conscription duty. Members of the Invalid Corps were subject to periodic re-examination by medical examining boards.

The document reads in full:

"A.&I.G.O.

Appt Office March 30, 1865

According to records of this office, the name of Capt. Jno. A. Ramsay, appears as having been transferred from Company K of the 45th N.C. Regiment, to the Invalid Corps on the 2nd day of December 1864 and he will therefore not be compelled to appear before any Med. Ex. Board for re-examination until the 2nd of June 1865.

By Command of Sec of War

Ed. A. Palfrey

Lt. Col. & A.A.G."

Lt. Col. Edward A. Palfrey served as an Assistant Adjutant General in the Adjutant and Inspector General's Office in Richmond. His signature appears on many official Confederate War Department documents.

The 45th North Carolina Infantry served with the Army of Northern Virginia in Daniel's Brigade. The regiment saw heavy fighting at Gettysburg, the Wilderness, and Spotsylvania, and it took part in the Overland Campaign and the Siege of Petersburg.

John Austin Lindsay was 21 years old and a resident of Guilford County, NC when he enlisted as a 1st Lieut. and was commissioned into Co. K, 45th North Carolina Infantry.  He resigned on 2/25/63 and subsequently re-enlisted as a Captain in Co.  K.  He was wounded in action at Gettysburg on July 1, 1863 and was absent through the end of the year, and at times during 1864.  He transferred to the Veteran Reserve Corps in December 1864.  He is listed as paroled at Greensboro, NC on May 1, 1865. Lindsay died, sadly, at the young age of 25 in 1868 in a sawmill accident.

The document is written in a fine, legible hand in dark ink on lined period paper. It shows original folds, light toning, and some irregularity along the edges consistent with age. A wonderful piece of Confederate paper written in the final days of the Civil War, with a direct connection to a combat regiment of the Army of Northern Virginia.     [cm/ld][ph:L]

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