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LEWISVILLE / ARK // SEP / 29 [1862] cds with day in manuscript on cover to Mrs L. D. Conner, Cokesbury S.C., PAID 10 (rate in manuscript), CSA Catalog Type A; with original enclosure from D. W. McCants to his daughter datelined "Cut Off, Red River, Septbr. 16th 1862", interesting contents including lack of mail due to the blockade, receiving a letter from one of his sons describing the wounding of his foot by a ball, battle at Manassas and serving under Stonewall Jackson, how they (recently moved from SC) love living in Arkansas and want for nothing but coffee; cover with small piece missing at top and other minor edge wear, small flap faults, Scarce with ONLY FIVE RECORDED IN DR. BRUCE ROBERTS ARKANSAS CENSUS. $500.
David Whitfield McCants (1812-1882) was born at Bannister Down Plantation, St. John Parish, South Carolina. He was Justice of the Peace in Cokesbury, SC in the 1830s. He moved to Arkansas in 1861 just before the war began. He had eight children, all of whom moved to Arkansas with him except the oldest daughter, who married Leonidas D. Conner in 1852. Four of his sons fought in the war, one of whom was killed at Antietam.
