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Freedley, Samuel (fl. 1862) Invoice of clothing, camp and garrison equipage

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02016.124 Author/Creator: Freedley, Samuel (fl. 1862) Place Written: Camp on Paradise Creek, [Pennsylvania] Type: Manuscript signed Date: September 1862 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 25 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

Includes a list of clothes, camp and garrison equipment delivered by Lieutenant Samuel Freedley to Captain John Buyers. The docket indicates that this is the third invoice of the quarter for "I" Company, 58th Pennsylvania Volunteers.

Samuel Freedley enlisted in the Union Army as Quartermaster on 1 January 1862 and commissioned into Pennsylvania 58th Infantry. He was mustered out on 1 January 1865.

Freedley, Samuel, fl. 1862

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