For a private in the Palmetto Sharpshooters of South Carolina

8 1/2 x 10 1/2, imprinted form, filled out in ink.

Treasury Department, Confederate States,
Second Auditor's Office,
Richmond, Va., March 5th, 1864

Sir:

Your application for arrears of pay, etc. due William J. Isbell, dec'd. late private of Capt. Kilpatrick's Co., Palmetto Sharp Shooters, S.C. Vols. has been received and filed, and will be attended to as early as possible, having regard to the equal claims upon the labors of the office, of other business previously on file.

I am, very respectfully, your ob't serv't,
W.H.S. TAYLOR
Auditor

To William G. Maret, Esq.
Care J.E. Hagood, Esq.
Pickens, C[our]t. Ho.[use]
So. Ca.

T. Calvat,
Chief Division, Deceased Soldiers

Light age toning and wear, and some paper chips at the edges. Very fine, desirable and scarce Confederate sharpshooter document.

The Palmetto Sharpshooters were mustered into Confederate service in April 1862, near Richmond, Va. They were formed from men of the 4th, 5th and 9th South Carolina Infantry Regiments, under Colonel Micah Jenkins, whose 12 months service had expired. Captain Franklin W. Kilpatrick, who is named on this document, had previously served in the 4th South Carolina Infantry, and was wounded on July 21, 1861, at the 1st battle of Manassas, Va. After recovery from his wounds, he was appointed Captain, of Co. B, of the Palmetto Sharpshooters. Promoted to Colonel of the 1st (Hagood's) South Carolina Infantry, March 17, 1863, he was killed in action on October 28, 1863, at Wauchatchie, Tennessee.

The date and place of the death of Private William J. Isbell, Co. B, Palmetto Sharpshooters is unknown to me, but it would have been prior to Kilpatrick's transfer to the 1st South Carolina Infantry.

The Palmetto Sharpshooters surrendered on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Va., with only 5 officers, and 4 non-commissioned officers left in the regiment.