CSA #12-AD, 10¢ blue tied Army grid cancel on cover to “T.H. Higinbotham, QuarterMr Department, Mobile, Ala” with docketing up left side “Recd Nov 21st 1863, answd “ 21”, file fold across left end.

T.H. Higinbotham is shown in military records as 1st Sgt Co C 2 Regt Engineer Troopscommanded by Capt. L. Hutchinson. His residence is logically listed as New Orleans. Other correspondence is sent care of the Quartermaster Department or Capt. Douglas Vass who was the QM at Mobile from November 1861 until August 26, 1864 when Mobile fell. Higinbotham is shown on the Roll of POWs surrendered at Citronelle, Ala by Lt. Gen. R. Taylor, CSA to Maj. Gen. E.R.S. Canby USA in May 1865 and paroled at Meridian, Miss. The 2nd Regiment Engineer Troops, Army and Department of the Gulf, was organized 7 Aug 1863 in Mobile, Alabama under Capt. Hutchinson.