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- GLC#
- GLC00572.01-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 21 April 1834
- Author/Creator
- Partridge, N., fl. 1834
- Title
- [Recommendation letter and certification of military instruction for Paul J. Semmes]
- Place Written
- Charlottesville, Virginia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 24.5 cm, Width: 20 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Partridge certifies that Semmes attended his course at the University of Virginia on military instruction "embracing the practical drills of infantry; permanent & field fortification; artillery; the attack & defense of fortified places; Ancient & Modern Tactics ..." Recommends Semmes and praises him as "attentive to the Instruction, correct in his deportment and his conduct that of the Gentleman and the Soldier." Docket crossed out on verso.
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