War-date Autograph Letter Signed “J.L. White Capt. Co. H 19th SC Regt.” and by “Wm Jay Lieut Co H 19th SC Regt.” addressed to General Gideon Pillow, 1pp. folio, White House, Albe Dist. South Carolina, April 29, 1863, and reads in part: “...I and Lieut Jay being from the same state and each of uss officers in your bureau conculded on our return to South Carolina to act in concert with each and now submit this our report jointly. We have traveled a considerable scope of countyr been busily engaged...and sent back to the army every absentee that we knew or heard of with the exception of some few men that were seriously wounded at the battle of Murfreesboro.....We have gathered three conscripts John C. Brooks...D.L. Mathis...B. Brown...” Fine condition.19th Infantry Regiment was organized during the winter of 1861-1862. It moved to Mississippi, then to Kentucky where it saw action at Munfordsville. The unit was brigaded under Generals Manigault and Sharp and from September, 1863, to April 1864, was consolidated with the 10th Regiment. It served with the Army of Tennessee from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, fought with Hood in Tennessee, and was active in the North Carolina operations. The regiment lost 8 killed and 72 wounded at Murfreesboro, and the 10th/19th sustained 236 casualites at Chickamauga and totalled 436 men and 293 arms in December, 1863. During the Atlanta Campaign, July 22-28, the 19th reported 12 killed, 60 wounded, and 25 missing, and there were 9 killed, 34 wounded, and 8 missing at Ezra Church. It surrendered on April 26, 1865, with 76 men. The field officers were Colonels Augustus J. Lythgoe, W.C. Moragne, James F. Pressley, and T.S. Shaw; Lieutenant Colonel Abraham Jones; and Majors John A. Crowder, Tillman Watson, and James L. White.