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Document Concerning a Private in the 1st California Volunteer Infantry Regiment....
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Document Concerning a Private in the 1st California Volunteer Infantry Regiment. One page, 8" x 12.5", partially printed and completed in holograph, Fort Union, New Mexico, January 23, 1865, with a single horizontal fold, else fine.A superb document concerning Private William Elder, attached to Captain Nicholas S. Davis' Company (K) of the 1st California Volunteer Infantry Regiment which appoints George S. Evans, California's Adjutant General, to act in his name to collect any money due to him as a result of the California "Act for the Relief of Enlisted Men of the California Volunteers". The document was signed at Fort Union in Moro County New Mexico and bears a Moro County notary seal and three Internal Revenue hand-canceled stamps. Of particular note is that the Ft. Union's commander who countersigned the document, Colonel Henry R. Selden, died of disease a week later on February 2, 1865.
The 1st California Volunteer Infantry came under command of the Department of the Pacific, later Department of New Mexico and was primarily engaged in garrison duty in New Mexico and Texas. Only one company (I), saw action against Confederate forces at the Battle of Picacho Pass.
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2008 June Signature Civil War Auction #6002 (go to Auction Home page)
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June, 2008
29th-30th
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