MANUSCRIPT FAREWELL ORDER TO HIS TROOPS, SIGNED BY JAMES B. HAZELTON, COMMANDER OF BATTERY D, 1ST NEW YORK ARTILLERY, 28 MAY 1865.
Single leaf, written in neat ink manuscript on recto and verso. 9-3/4" x 7-3/4." Entitled, "Co, Orders, No. 19." Old folds, with a couple of pinholes and short tape repairs. Good+.
"To those who are about to return to their homes the Capt. Comdg desires to extend his gratitude for the past and good wishes for their success in the future. You have many times proven yourselves worthy the appelation of Soldiers and by your conduct upon many hard fought fields have made for yourselves a reputation which will live in history. You will ever receive from our people constant esteem and gratitude. . . . As happiness attends each one of you in life, do not forget to at times devote a few moments and water afresh with sacred tears the memory of those who have so nobly fallen from your midst."
James Buchanan Hazelton [1843-1913] was mustered in as a Sergeant with Battery C, NY 1st Light Artillery on September 6, 1861; transferring to Battery G as 2nd Lieutenant a year later, and to Battery D as Captain in October 1864. The Unit was attached to the Army of the Potomac from September 1862 until the end of the War. He was granted the rank of Major on August 31, 1867, for gallant and meritorious services. During his time with the 1st New York, his companies fought at Manassas Junction, Bull Run Bridge, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Appomattox. After the War, he remained in the Army through 1873. By 1881, he was living in Ohio; the 1900 U.S. Federal Census lists him as a clerk of the "NS House." Item #37533
Price: $500.00