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PENNSYLVANIA CAPTAIN’S COMMISSION FOR ELI DAUGHTERY - CO. K, 210TH PENNSYLVANIA INFANTRY

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Dated Harrisburg, PA, 7 November 1864. Pre-printed state commission document, 16” x 13, w/ state seal, signed by Eli Slifer, Secretary of the Commonwealth.  Double matted in gray & black, mounted in handsome brown frame w/gilt inner trim, 23” x 20.” Exhibits fold-marks, w/light soiling along center fold. Else VG.

A resident of Lebanon County, Eli Daugherty enlisted as a Captain and was commissioned into Co. “K”, 93^rd Pennsylvania Infantry, 10/21/1861. He was listed as WIA at Fair Oaks, VA, 5/31/1862, and as resigning his commission 11/8/1862. Nearly two years later he was commissioned Captain into Co. “K”, 210^th Infantry, with which he served during the Siege of Petersburg through the concluding Appomattox Campaign, and was mustered out with his unit following the Grand Review, 5/30/1865. During their brief service—Sept. 1864 /April 1865-- the 210^th PA Infantry 40 killed and mortally wounded.  The 93^rd PA with which he earlier served lost 162 killed and mortally wounded and 112 to disease for a total 174.

Fine commission memento of a Pennysylvania Captain with service in two Regiments, the 93^rd and 210^th PA. Captain Daugherty, a member of Camp 254, Sons of America, Post 42, GAR, died in 1917 and was buried in Shaefferstown, Lebanon County, PA. Accompanied by a brief amount of internet research material.  [jp][ph:L]

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