CIVIL WAR AUTOGRAPH - CONFEDERATE GENERAL ALFRED IVERSON JR. - EXCELLENT

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ALFRED IVERSON JR. (1829-1911) SUPERB LARGE AUTOGRAPH 5 1/2 X 3 IN. "Alfred Iverson, Georgia" EXCELLENT CONDITION. A FINE EXAMPLE THAT WOULD BE PERFECT FOR FRAMING. UNCOMMON. A brigadier general in the Confederate army, Alfred Iverson Jr. captured the highest-ranking Union officer ever taken prisoner during the Civil War, Major General George Stoneman. Iverson led forces in the Battles of Gaines' Mill and Chancellorsville in Virginia, Antietam in Maryland, and Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. When the Mexican War (1846-48) broke out in 1846, Iverson was a seventeen-year-old enrolled in the Tuskegee Military Institute in Alabama. He joined a Georgia volunteer cavalry regiment and fought with distinction in the war, becoming a second lieutenant. As a first lieutenant in the U.S. First Cavalry Regiment, he took part in attempts to put down clashes between pro- and anti-slavery groups in the new Kansas territory in the mid 1850's. When the Civil War started, Iverson resigned as a U.S. Army lieutenant, became a captain in the Twentieth North Carolina Cavalry Regiment, and recruited several volunteer companies. After being made a colonel, Iverson fought at Gaines' Mill in Virginia during the Seven Days' Battles in June 1862 and later was wounded. He also took part in the Maryland campaigns and was promoted to brigadier general after honorable read more

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