CSA 12, 10¢ blue (vertical crease and roughly torn) tied light HOUSTON / Tex. cds on cover to Mrs. E. Holt, Matagorda, Texas with endorsement “From Army Tennessee.” $90. Elias Holt (sometimes seen with middle initial L, sometimes as C and often with none, sometimes shown as Eli) enlisted at Houston as a private September 7, 1861, and mustered into Company G, 2nd Texas Infantry, (1st Texas Infantry, Moore’s Regiment, Galveston Regiment, Van Dorn Regiment). Taken prisoner and paroled October 9, 1861; captured and paroled by U.S. forces in battles of Iuka and Corinth September and October 1862, AWOL December 1863, arrested at Galveston May 1864, noted as deserted in July 1864 and in another place as captured at Vicksburg July 4, 1863, (typical conflicting military records). Shown in Houston General Hospital December 1861 (debility and typhoid fever). Signed U.S. Oath of Allegiance at Vicksburg July 7, 1863. No further records.

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