DUE 10 Army of Tennessee field cancel but hard to make out which type, struck on irregularly shaped homemade envelope to Mrs. Charlotta J. Thompson, Alpharetta, Ga with mandated endorsement of W. Thompson in Co G, 56th Regt Ga Vols (Army of Tennessee). The 56th was also known as the 55th Georgia from Milton County. $160.

Private Wilburn Thompson was noted in unit records as present “May 3, 1862, but left sick at Dalton, Georgia, in 1864, captured there, and sent to Indiana. Never heard from.” An online genealogy site reports that he was taken to Camp Morton, Indiana. Wilburn Thompson's wife, Charlotte "Lottie" Segars Thompson drew a widow’s pension for many years, but never knew what happened to her husband. The family researcher found a book at the Georgia Archives that listed Confederate soldiers buried in Northern cemeteries, and it showed that Wilburn Thompson had died of his wounds at Camp Morton, Indiana, and was buried August 12, 1864, at Green Lawn Cemetery in Indianapolis.