From Civil War Talk.
An ad placed in the Fredericksburg, Virginia, newspaper in 1866 read:
"PERSONAL INFORMATION WANTED OF OLIVER H.P. ANDERSON, Company A, Forty-eighth Mississippi Regiment, Heth's Division, A.P. Hill's Corps, C.S.A., commanded by Captain Coffen, who has been missing ever since the Battle of Spottsylvania Courthouse, May 12th, 1864.
"Any information by letter addressed to me at Richmond, Virginia, care of Verandum House, or a personal interview, would greatly oblige a distressed mother.
"jc 19- 3t Mrs. Rebecca Anderson"
Comments: Enlisted March 30, 1864, at Jackson, Mississippi. Probably buried in unmarked grave.
The 48th Mississippi was one of the units fighting at the bloody "Mule Shoe" area of the battle.
He was probably young, having enlisted that late in the war.
A Very Sad Story. --Old Secesh
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