Camp near Paris
Clark Co Va Sept 10th/62
Dear Charley
Enclosed you
will find your "Descriptral Roll"
to 1st Sept. Bounty & Clothing
included--Hoping you will
find your new position
more pleasant than the
"Foot Cavalry"
I am as ever yr friend
Granville
Charles Elisha Taylor, 1842-1915, was originally with the 21st Mississippi Infantry. Wounded in action, he was unable to march and obtained a position in the 10th Virginia Cavalry. After the war he became a Baptist minister, professor and eventually president of Wake Forest University.
MSS 3091
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