Author: SMITH, Joseph Sewall (1832-?)
Title: Signature
Description: This Civil War officer served as lieutenant colonel (later brevet brigadier general) with the Second Corps, where he was chief commissary of subsistence; he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his October 27, 1864 service at Hatchers's Run, Virginia, where he led part of a brigade that captured Confederate soldiers and their flag and saved artillery. Clipped portion of a printed Document Signed, 8½" X 2¼", n.p. n.y. Near fine. Below the printed line "[the]rein expressed; that their services were rendered as stated, and were necessary for the public service," Smith signs in full large and bold in brown ink on a dotted line at lower right. Below his signature his rank ("Lt. Col. & Chief / 2nd Corps") is handsomely penned in another hand. Likely clipped from a routine military form of some sort. .
Keywords: MEDAL OF HONOR Civil War
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Title: Signature
Description: This Civil War officer served as lieutenant colonel (later brevet brigadier general) with the Second Corps, where he was chief commissary of subsistence; he was awarded the Medal of Honor for his October 27, 1864 service at Hatchers's Run, Virginia, where he led part of a brigade that captured Confederate soldiers and their flag and saved artillery. Clipped portion of a printed Document Signed, 8½" X 2¼", n.p. n.y. Near fine. Below the printed line "[the]rein expressed; that their services were rendered as stated, and were necessary for the public service," Smith signs in full large and bold in brown ink on a dotted line at lower right. Below his signature his rank ("Lt. Col. & Chief / 2nd Corps") is handsomely penned in another hand. Likely clipped from a routine military form of some sort. .
Keywords: MEDAL OF HONOR Civil War
Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 32497
- Book number: 32497
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