Confederate Recruitment Broadside for Colonel William C. Faulkner's 2nd Mississippi Regiment

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Property of N. Flayderman & Co., Plus Selected Additions by Cowan's Auctions

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Lot Description

Printed broadside, 8.25 x 12 in., issued by Henry Davenport, 2nd Lieutenant of the 2nd Mississippi Volunteers, Company A, calling for 300 recruits for the 2nd Mississippi Regiment per the request of Colonel William C. Faulkner.

The 2nd Mississippi Regiment completed its organization at Corinth in April 1861. After fighting at First Manassas, the regiment served with the army from Seven Pines to Cold Harbor. It saw action in the Petersburg siege south of the James River and in numerous conflicts around Appomattox. It reported 25 killed and 82 wounded at First Manassas. It sustained 111 casualties during the Seven Days' Battles, 97 at Second Manassas, and 154 in the Maryland Campaign. More than 45 percent of its men were disabled at Gettysburg. Only one officer and nineteen men surrendered. The field officers were Colonels William C. Faulkner and John M. Stone, Lieutenant Colonels John A. Blair, Bartley B. Boone, and D.W. Humphreys, and Major John H. Buchanan (Information obtained from the National Park Service Website, January 5, 2017).

Provenance: N. Flayderman and Co., Inc.

Condition

Scattered foxing of the paper and a few uneven edges, a small portion of the left corner is missing.
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