GUINEY’S Va. FEB cds with manuscript “due 10” on cover to Miss Mary A. Turner, LaGrange, Troup Co(unty) Va. Endorsed at the top “From private I.H. Turner Co K 44 Ga. Vol.” Ex John Vagnetti. $120.
Irby H. Turner enlisted as a private March 4, 1862. He was promoted to corporal in July and Sergeant in 1864. He was captured at Spotsylvania Courthouse, Va., May 10, 1864, and died of smallpox while a prisoner at Fort Delaware July 16, 1864.