SOLD!!! A great image of Captain John A. Richley of Company C, 73rd Indiana Infantry. Written in period ink on the back of the image is "Respectfully Your Friend, Capt. John A. Richley, Co. C, 73d Ind. Vol. - South Bend, Indiana". A green 3 cent revenue stamp is on the back , and the backmark is "P.K. Clark, Photographer, Elkhart, Ind.". Richley entered the service of the 73rd Indiana as a 1st Lieutenant on August 16, 1862. He was promoted to Captain on November 22, 1862. He was captured near Rome, Georgia in May, 1863. He was at the Confederate prison camps of Macon, Georgia and Columbia, South Carolina. He was paroled in December 1864, and mustered out in July 1865.
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