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Perry, Johnathan F., fl. 1964 [Receipt of funds from the Freedmen Department]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08649.02 Author/Creator: Perry, Johnathan F., fl. 1964 Place Written: Memphis, Tennessee Type: Printed document signed Date: 17 October 1864 Pagination: 1 p. ; docket ; 24.9 x 19.6 cm. Order a Copy

Partially printed. Perry signs as 1st Lieutenant and Adjutant, 63rd United States Colored Troops. Receives $400 from Captain T. A. Walker, Superintendent of Freedmen. Remarks indicate "Being amount of funds received from sale of wood cut by Freedmen."

Perry, Johnathan F., fl. 1864
Walker, T. A., fl. 1863-1865

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