Withers, C. A., b. 1842.

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C. A. Withers (born 1842) of Lexington, Ky., served in the Confederate army with the 1st Kentucky Infantry Regiment in Virginia early in the Civil War; he then moved to the western theater, was captured during the Vicksburg campaign, and was later exchanged. He also served with General John Hunt Morgan's partisans in eastern Tennessee and western Virginia, was captured in the same engagement in which Morgan was killed, escaped from prison to Canada, and returned to the South by way of Cuba.

From the guide to the C.A. Withers's, Humor and Pathos, 1914, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)

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