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Captain Noah A Burly, a Captain in the 17th South Carolina Infantry sent the following to the Confederate authorities in Richmond, VA on behalf of his brother James Calvin Burly, late of the 12th Mississippi Infantry.

James was wounded at Sharpsburg in September 1862 and again, mortally, at Gettysburg in July 1863.

This document is among those in James’ Compiled Service Records, now in the National Archives, Washington, DC, and online thanks to fold3. It was particularly interesting to me because it has the brothers’ surname handwritten as Burly. Most family records and grave markers spell it Burley.

My transcription:

[reverse]
W.H. Taylor Esq
2d Auditor’s Office
Richmond, Va

Trenches near Petersburg Va
Oct 21st 1864

W.H. Taylor

Dear Sir, Enclosed you will find a Final Statement of my brother, J.C. Burly, Co. I, 12th Miss Regt. You will confer a great favor to me and my family by paying the dues called for to his Mother, Mrs Elizabeth Burly, Monticello P.O., Fairfield Dist, So. Car__ I am res your obt svt

N.A. Burly. Capt.
Co B 17 SC Vols

William George Stigler was 3rd Sergeant of Company I, 12th Mississippi Infantry when he was wounded at Sharpsburg in September 1862. He was captured in the Wilderness, VA in May 1864, by then reduced to Private, and was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to March 1865.

At the end of the War he was in Alabama and he was paroled by Federal authorities at Montgomery on 10 May 1865. Here’s his parole document from his Compiled Service Records, US National Archives, online from fold3.

He was then 22 years old, and unless the officer filling out the form made a mistake, was only 4 feet and 5 inches tall.

A fine post-war photograph of Theodore Barber Day, Antietam veteran and late Private, Company C, 2nd Wisconsin Infantry, thanks to descendant Sam Day.

Theodore’s great grandson Terence Lee Day and his son Daniel S Day researched and produced a Life History [PDF] of him in 2017. Daniel shared it on the FamilySearch database and invites feedback.