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Wood, Sterling Alexander Martin, 1823-1891 [Special requisition for bounty money]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00807 Author/Creator: Wood, Sterling Alexander Martin, 1823-1891 Place Written: Corinth, Mississippi Type: Autograph endorsement signed Date: April 1862 Pagination: 1 p. : docket Height: 161 cm, Width: 19.7 cm Order a Copy

Special requisition for bounty money for the one hundred and twenty six recruits. Lists names of soldiers of the 32nd Regiment, Mississippi Volunteers. Created by Colonel M. P. Laury and approved by Confederate Brigadier General Sterling A. M. Wood.

Laury, M. P., fl. 1862
Wood, Sterling Alexander Martin, 1823-1891

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