MORGAN, JAMES DADA (1810-96) Union Brigadier General; Early-war Colonel of the 10th Illinois Infantry; Veteran of the Illinois Mormon War & the Mexican War
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Civil War-Date Document - Pay for a 101st Indiana Infantry soldier who died one week later.
Document Signed, 8 ¼” x 10”, Nashville, Tennessee, May 30, 1863, “James D. Morgan, Brig[adier] Gen[era]l Commanding Post,” a partly printed “Certificate to be Given to Discharged Volunteers to Enable them to draw their Pay” for Merrill Ransey (possibly Ramsey), a private in the 101st Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Further described, “Disease contracted prior to enlistment,” Private Ransey died in Nashville on June 8, 1863, just one week later.
Lightly and evenly toned, with scattered staining; somewhat heavier wear at two horizontal folds.
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