CIVIL WAR GENERAL CUSTER AIG COLONEL 8th NY CAVALRY DISCHARGE DOCUMENT SIGNED 62

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CIVIL WAR GENERAL CUSTER AIG COLONEL 8th NY CAVALRY DISCHARGE DOCUMENT SIGNED 62:
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EDMUND MANN POPE

(1837 - 1906)

CIVIL WAR UNION BVTBRIGADIER GENERAL,

ANTIETAM and GETTYSBURG COLONELand COMMANDER of the “HARD FIGHTING” 8th NEW YORK CALVARY

LT. COL., ACTG. AIG onthe STAFF of GENERAL GEORGE A. CUSTER

Pope participated in the battles of Harper\'s Ferry, Antietam,Fredericksburg, Brandy Station, Gettysburg, the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, ColdHarbor, Winchester, and Cedar Creek. Pope led the 8th NY Cavalry inthe Appomattox campaign that resulted in the surrender of General Robert E. Leeand his army on April 9, 1865!

HERE’S A RARE CIVIL WAR DATE CERTIFICATEOF DISCHARGE - AUTOGRAPH DOCUMENT SIGNED 4 TIMES BY POPE!

The document discharges AndrewGoldwardt, a Private in Pope’s 8th Regiment of Cavalry due toEpilepsy…

Pope signs three times on the frontpage (twice in the body of the text and once at the signature line) and theverso bears an autograph note signed by Pope that reads: “Relay House, July 4, 1862, I certify that the within certificate wasmade and delivered by me to said Private Andrew Gouldwardt this 4thday of July, 1862. E. M. Pope…”

The document cover measures8½” x 11” and is in VERY GOOD CONDITION.

AWONDERFUL ADDITION TO YOUR CIVIL WAR “GENERALS IN BLUE” MILITARY AUTOGRAPH,MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERA COLLECTION!

BIOGRAPHYOF GEN. POPE

EIGHTH CAVALRY
(Three Years)

Eighth Cavalry.-Cols., Samuel J. Crooks, Alfred Gibbs, Benjamin

F. Davis, William L. Markell, William H. Benjamin, Edmund M.

Pope; Lieut.-Cols., Charles R. Babbitt, William L. Markell,

William H. Benjamin, Edmund M. Pope, James Bliss; Majs., Edmund

M. Pope, William L. Markell, Caleb Moore, William Downey, William

H. Benjamin, James McNair, James Bliss, Harmon P. Burroughs,

Albert L. Ford, Hartwell B. Compson.

The 8th, known as the Rochester regiment, was recruited by Col.

Crooks, and was organized in Rochester on Nov. 14, 1861. It is

one of the famous three hundred fighting regiments enumerated by

Col. Fox in his Regimental Losses in the he Civil War. The

members were principally recruited from the counties of Monroe,

Ontario, Seneca, Wayne, Orleans, Niagara, Chenango and Oneida.

Only ten companies were organized in 1861, and these were

mustered into the U. S. service at Rochester, Nov. 23 and 28,

1861, for three years. The original Co. K was transferred to

other organizations and a new Co. K was formed in 1862, as were

the additional Cos., L and M, which were mustered into the U. S.

service at Rochester from Sept. 29 to Oct. 14, for three years.

The original members, who had not reenlisted, were ordered to

return to Rochester on Oct. 29, 1864, and were there mustered out

and discharged. The veterans and recruits were consolidated into

a battalion of eight companies on Nov. 1, 1864, and remained in

service. Four new companies, I, K, L and M, formed of recruits

mustered in for one and two years\' service, in April, 1865, at

the close of the war, increased the organization to the

regimental standard once more.

It was finally mustered out and honorably discharged on June 27,

1865, at Alexandria, Va., under command of Col. Pope. The

regiment left the state, Nov. 29, 1861; was assigned to Banks\'

corps upon its arrival in Washington; served through the winter

in the defenses of the capital; in 1862 it was in the Department

of the Shenandoah the Middle Department with the 8th corps; and

from August to December in the 5th brigade of Pleasonton\'s

cavalry division, Army of the Potomac.

In Dec., 1862, it was assigned to the 1st brigade, same division;

in Feb., 1863, to the 1st brigade, 1st division; in March, 1864,

to the 2nd brigade, 3d division; joined the Army of the

Shenandoah in Oct., 1864, and returned to the Army of the Potomac

in March, 1865.

The regiment first came under fire at Winchester in May, 1862,

where five dismounted companies were engaged. It distinguished

itself during the siege of Harper\'s Ferry in September by

escaping through the besieging lines at night, capturing some of

the enemy\'s trains while on the way. It fought under Pleasonton

in the famous cavalry battle of Beverly ford in June, 1863, where

it sustained the heaviest loss of any regiment in the field-12

killed, 31 wounded and 7 missing.

The gallant Col. Davis was here killed in a personal encounter.

At Gettysburg it fought in Gamble\'s brigade, Buford\'s division,

which opened that historic battle. Its casualties at Gettysburg

amounted to 40 killed, wounded and missing. In the subsequent

campaigns in Virginia it saw constant hard service, its list of

casualties in Oct., 1863, amounting to 48 killed, wounded and

missing.

In Sheridan\'s raids and the Shenandoah campaign in 1864, it

served in Wilson\'s division. It was with Wilson in the raid on

the Weldon railroad in June, 1864, in which its losses were 117,

of whom 101 were reported missing. In the final Appomattox

campaign it sustained a loss of 31 in killed, wounded and

missing, fighting under Gen. Custer.

Altogether the 8th participated in over 130 battles and

skirmishes and lost by death 13 officers and 92 men, killed in

action and mortally wounded; 6 officers and 213 men died of

disease, accident and other causes, a total of 19 officers and

305 men, of whom 3 officers and 70 men died in prison.

Medals of honor were awarded for distinguished gallantry to Henry

H. Bickford, corporal; Hartwell B. Compson, major; Charles A.

Goheen, sergeant; William E. Hart, private; Daniel Kelly,

sergeant; Andrew Kuder, 2nd lieutenant; John Miller, private;

Robert Nevers, 2nd lieutenant; Mortimer A. Read, lieutenant; and

Joseph E. Sova, saddler.

Source: The Union Army, Vol. 2, p. 188

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