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Autograph letter signed

to Edwin D. Morgan

30 September 1862

Miles, Nelson A., 1839-1925

Recommending Lieutenant George W. Scott for a promotion.

GLC02459.25
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Print

Engraving of Nelson Appleton Miles

circa 1880

Hall, Charles Bryan, 1840-?

Biographical note is adhered below the image.

GLC02459.57
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Print

Engraving of Nelson Appleton Miles

circa 1880

Engraving is a page torn from a book and mounted on paper.

GLC02459.64
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Header Record

Two letters relating to Civil War promotions [Decimalized .01-.02]

1864-1899

A Civil War letter regarding promotions for officers, and a later letter which makes reference to the first.

GLC02462.09
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Autograph letter signed

to Seth Williams

15 May 1864

Hancock, Winfield Scott, 1824-1886

Recommends three Colonels for promotion to Brigadier General and two Brigadier Generals for promotion to Major General. One of the officers he recommends is Colonel Nelson Appleton Miles.

GLC02462.09.01
GLC02462.09.02
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Typed letter signed

to Charles G. Slack

February 27, 1899

Miles, Nelson A., 1839-1925

Miles affirms that he is the person mentioned in a letter signed by General Winfield Scott Hancock that Slack inquired about (GLC02462.09.01).

GLC02462.09.02
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Newspaper

The Philadelphia record no. 9662 [end of Spanish-American war]

1898/08/13

One newspaper issue of The Philadelphia record, dated August 13, 1898. Prints news of the end of the Spanish-American War, with the halting of hostilities on August 12, 1898 and a signing in Washington of a Protocol of Peace between the United States...

GLC08832
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Autograph letter signed

to William T. Sherman

9 March 1879

Miles, Nelson A., 1839-1925

Colonel Miles of the 5th Infantry sends a report to an unnamed "Dear General" [William T. Sherman]. Concerns Indians in Montana, recounting how "the followers of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse and Lame Deer had been forced to surrender." Discussing the...

GLC06629

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