UNION GENERAL PHILIP H. SHERIDAN WAR-DATE SIGNED DOCUMENT

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Offered is a document pertaining to pay for an assistant clerk dated March 28th, 1863. The document is signed, "Approved / P.H. Sheridan / Brig Genl Commdg". Sheridan's signature is strong and bold. Interestingly enough, 13 days later Sheridan would be promoted to Major General with this rank being back dated to December 31st, 1862. With Sheridan's promotion to Major General, it capped his meteoric rise from Captain to Major General in a six-month period of time. In addition to Sheridan's endorsement on the front of the document, it is also signed by George Lee, an assistant adjutant general on Sheridan's staff. By the end of the war, Lee would be Brevetted to Major and continued service with the U.S. Army 21st Infantry following of the war. He would die of disease on October 29th, 1867 while serving in New Orleans, Louisiana. On the reverse of the document, it is signed by John Mclean Taylor, who served with the Quartermaster Department during the war. On March 3rd, 1869, he was Brevetted Brigadier General.

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