CIVIL WAR COLONEL1st MICHIGAN LIGHT ARTILLERY GALVESTON TEXAS DOCUMENT SIGNED VF

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CIVIL WAR COLONEL1st MICHIGAN LIGHT ARTILLERY GALVESTON TEXAS DOCUMENT SIGNED VF:
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WILLIAM HENRY SINCLAIR

(1838 - 1897)

CIVIL WAR COLONEL AND COMMANDER,

CAPTAIN IN THE 1st MICHIGAN LIGHT ARTILLERY,

AIDE DE CAMP ON THE FIELD and STAFF OF BRIGADIER GENERALSTANLEY

GALVESTON, TEXAS LEGISLATOR, INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTOR and ENTREPENEUR!

An active staff officer,he fought in the campaigns of the western theater and had his horse shot outfrom under him twice. He wound up the war in the Union occupation army sent toTexas. A natural staff officer with a gift for the complex regulations andpaperwork requirements of the army, he came to the attention of the TexasBureau head, Brevet Brigadier General E. M. Gregory, in February 1866. Sinclair served in the following battles ofthe Civil War: Island No 10, March andApril 1862; Corinth, May 1862; Iuka,September 19, 1862; Corinth, October 3 and 4, 1862; Stone River (atMurfreesboro, Tennessee), December 1862 and January 1863; Farmington, Mississippi, May 28, 1862; Franklin, Tenn., December 12, 1862;and Manchester Pike (near Murfreesboro), January 6, 1863!

HERE’S AN 1882 UNITED STATES INTERNAL REVENUE TAX STAMPSIGNED BY SINCLAIR WHILE A POST WAR INTERNAL REVENUE COLLECTOR [APPOINTED BYPRESIDENT ARTHUR]. THE DOCUMENT IS A BRIGHT YELLOW AND HIGHLY ATTRACTIVE WITHGREAT EYE APPEAL!\"

Thedocument is measures 7\" x 11\" and in VERY FINE condition, and boldlyexecuted by Sinclair.

AFINE ADDITION TO YOUR CIVIL WAR ERA AUTOGRAPH, MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERACOLLECTION!

BIOGRAPHY OF THEHONORABLE

WILLIAM HENRY SINCLAIR

Eastern and northern Texas.

(Three Years)This regiment was engaged with the enemy while in service at the Siege of Corinth, Miss., May 10 to 31, 1862; Farmington, Miss., May 9, 1862; Iuka, Miss., September 17, 19, 1862; Corinth, Miss., October 3, 4, 1862; Lumkin\'s Mills, Miss., November 29, 1862; Tallahatchie, Miss., November --, 1862; Town Creek, Ala., April, 1863; Resaca, Ga., May 14, 1864; Dallas, Ga., May 27, 1864; Big Shanty, Ga., June 15, 1864; Kenesaw, Ga., June 25, 1864; Nickajack Creek, Ga., July 1, 1864; Decatur, Ala., July 20, 1864; siege of Atlanta, Ga., July 22 to August 25, 1864; near Savannah, Ga., December 9, 10, 11, 1864; South Edisto, S. C., February 9, 1865; Cheraw, S. C., March 4, 1865; Fayetteville, N. C., March 13, 1865; Bentonville, N. C., March 21, 1865.

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