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William Overall Yager: Virginia Military Institute, Société de Cadets Certificate, circa 1852, one page with ink notations o...
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William Overall Yager: Virginia Military Institute, Société de Cadets Certificate, circa 1852, one page with ink notations on the verso, 15¾" x 19½", partially printed on vellum, in French. The certificate, or diploma, confers W. O. Yager with membership in the Société de Cadets and the title Comte de Pagé. William O. Yager of Luray, Virginia, commanded, as lieutenant colonel, the 1st Texas Cavalry, better known as the 1st Cavalry, Texas Mounted Rifles, the first cavalry regiment from Texas to enter Confederate service. Very fine condition with the original light blue silk riband.The document is signed by the president and secretary as well as all twenty-two members of the Société's Class of 1852. Notable members and signatures include: George S. Patton, colonel commanding the 22nd Virginia Infantry, mortally wounded at the Battle of Opequon in 1864, and grandfather of General George S. Patton IV; James A. Walker, expelled from VMI shortly before graduation for challenging an instructor, Thomas J. Jackson, to a duel. Walker later served under Jackson as a colonel and was promoted to general and given command of the Stonewall Brigade upon Jackson's death in May 1863. He led the brigade during the Gettysburg Campaign, where his regiment participated in the attacks on Culp's Hill. He was badly wounded at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House and invalided out of the service in 1864; Simeon B. Gibbons, colonel of the 10th Virginia Infantry, killed in May 1862 at the Battle of McDowell; Thomas T. Munford, who served in the Confederate Army from May 1861 until he dispersed his troops after Lee's surrender at Appomattox in 1865. He reached the rank of general and commanded Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry division; Joseph C. Mayo, colonel commanding the 3rd Virginia Infantry; and others.
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2009 June Signature Civil War Auction #6024 (go to Auction Home page)
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June, 2009
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