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Dorr, James Colby, ?-1880 [Military discharge for Joseph Steele for disability]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02680.13 Author/Creator: Dorr, James Colby, ?-1880 Place Written: Washington, District of Columbia Type: Document signed Date: 21 December 1862 Pagination: 2 p. ; 26.4 x 19.6 cm. Order a Copy

Printed form filled out with the handwritten emendations of Dorr, discharging Steele from service due to a disability. Dorr was a surgeon on the United States Volunteers Medical Staff. Private Steele was a gunsmith with the 104th Rgt. NY Volunteers.

Dorr, James Colby, -1880
Steele, Joseph, 1818-1886
Marchand, John Bonnett, 1808-1875

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