CIVIL WAR NASHVILLE TENNESSEE GENERAL RE GRANGER DANGEROUS ORDNANCE - $225 - (Winterville, NC)
An original Civil War Certificate for Sergeant Richard Pitts at Nashville, Tennessee, March 31, 1864 to receive pay for mess rations ate in the town of Nashville, " it being impracticable for the Sergeant to cook his rations in the Ordnance Buildings where there is a large quantity of powder and where he is the whole day on guard by my order", signed by Captain EF Townsend, 16th Infantry & ordnance officer, and approved and signed by Brigadiers General RS Granger, Commanding. The 1p 8 x 14 ink Certificate is also sgd by Sergeant Pitts for receipt of his mess funds. The reverse has a Nashville, Tennessee stamped seal. General Robert Seaman Granger, a native of Zanesville, Ohio, a notable Prewar West Point combat commander on the Texas Frontier. In 1862 he organized the Mansfield Brigade , Ohio and served in Kentucky & Tennessee, successfully fighting Forrest, Wheeler & Hood. Captain Edwin Franklin Townsend, 16th US Infantry won laurels at the Battle of Shiloh, postwar rose to General, US US Army, buried at Arlington Cemetery. 1p 8 x 14" ink, with age stains, edge wear, reverse w archival repairs at fold, Overall VG. Comes w service info. Welcome to my Ebay Auctions and Ebay Store. I am a specialist in early American Military & Historical items, especially American Civil War ephemera- letters, military & historic documents including broadsides, commissions, General Orders and other imprints. I have been collecting and selling original American Civil War & US Military memorabilia for 35 years My customers have included some of the leading names in collecting and selling American History items, as well was as a wide range of novice & advanced collectors in addition to some 30 US federal, state, public and private university & municipal museums and libraries. All items are unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic and in the condition as described. I am a longtime member of the Company of Military Historians, the New England Antique Arms Association, the Ephemera Soc…
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