PRINTED DOCUMENT SIGNED BY CAPTAIN WILLARD LINCOLN, COMPANY H, 19TH REGIMENT MAINE INFANTRY VOLUNTEERS, 7 JULY 1864, CERTIFYING THAT, FOR THE PERIOD 1 MAY - 30 JUNE 1864, HE IS ENTITLED TO PAYMENT FOR "BEN. WILSON, COLORED," HIS "PRIVATE SERVANT NOT SOLDIER."
Oblong printed folio, completed in manuscript. Old folds, else Fine.
Willard Lincoln, from the Town of China in Maine, enlisted as a First Lieutenant in Co. H of the 19th Maine Volunteer Infantry, in 1862. He was wounded on the second day of Gettysburg, recovered, and was promoted to Captain. When he signed this document, Lincoln was "on detached service at Draft Rendezvous Portland Me."
As a condition of payment, Lincoln certifies that he "employed the private servants for which I charge, for the whole of the time charged, and that I did not, during the term so charged, or any part thereof, keep or employ a soldier as a waiter or servant." Item #37080
Price: $250.00