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Whipple, Thomas J., 1816-1889 [Appointment of Eleazer Sarsons as a volunteer sergeant in the Civil War]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03953.05 Author/Creator: Whipple, Thomas J., 1816-1889 Place Written: New Hampshire Type: Printed document signed Date: 25 September 1861 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 18.5 x 21 cm. Order a Copy

Signed by Colonel Whipple and countersigned by Adjutant Henry W. Fuller. Partially printed document appointing Sarsons the third sergeant in Company C of the 4th Regiment of the New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry.

Whipple, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), 1816-1889
Fuller, Henry William, 1838-1885
Sarsons, Eleazer L.,1836-?

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