BURNHAM, HIRAM (1811-72) Union Brigadier General; Colonel of the 6th Maine Volunteer Infantry; Killed-in-Action at the Battle of Chaffin’s Farm – September 29, 1864
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Civil War-Date Document Signed by a Killed-in-Action Union General
Document Signed, 7 ¾” x 12”, “Approved, Hiram Burnham, Col[onel] 6th Maine Vol[unteer]s,” a manuscript “Abstract of articles expended in the public service at Camp near Bell[e] Plains, V[irgini]a…in the month ending on the 31st December 1862.” Countersigned three times, front and reverse, by Lieutenant Addison P. Buck.
Lightly and evenly toned, with a few superficial stains and three horizontal folds.
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