RARE CDV\'s CONFEDERATE Poellnitz Brothers 21st. Alabama Infantry With UDC Cross
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RARE CDV\'s CONFEDERATE Poellnitz Brothers 21st. Alabama Infantry With UDC Cross:
$799.00
Original CDV\'s of CONFEDERATE Brothers Edwin Augustus & James Alexander Poellnitz, from Marengo County, Alabama, fought with the 21st. Alabama Infantry (With Lt. George Dixon of CSS Hunley fame) at Shiloh & several other smaller skirmishes, then at Ft. Gaines, Alabama where they were captured & sent to the Union prison at Ship Island, Mississippi. Released in early 1865 in a Prisoner exchange, they were furloughed and while traveling back home to Marengo County, reportedly stopped to help a fellow soldier who was sick & cold by covering him with their blankets and as a result contracted Smallpox themselves and lived only a short while thereafter, dying just a few days apart. Their first cousin, Mary Euphradia Poellnitz, was the wife of Confederate General George D. Johnston, who fought in pretty much every battle that the Army Of Tennessee was engaged in. Their Great-Grandfather, Baron von Poellnitz was of German nobility, and a close associate of George Washington. They had several other close relatives from the same vicinity who fought with the Confederacy also, one a surgeon. These items were found together in the estate of the old Teague family of the Montgomery, Alabama area, who owned the old Teague Dairy, which later became the Hall Bros. Dairy, I believe.
RARE CDV\'s CONFEDERATE Poellnitz Brothers 21st. Alabama Infantry With UDC Cross:
$799.00