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Buyers, John (fl. 1862) Invoice of tents

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02016.126 Author/Creator: Buyers, John (fl. 1862) Place Written: s.l. Type: Manuscript signed Date: 28 May 1863 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 25 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

Includes a list of tent equipment delivered by Captain John Buyers to Lieutenant [Angello] Jackson of "I" Company, 58th Pennsylvania Volunteers. Also signed by Lieutenant Jackson as received.

John Buyers enlisted in the Army on 28 October 1862 as captain and commissioned into I company, 58th Pennsylvania Infantry. On 30 May 1863 he resigned from his position.

Buyers, John, fl. 1862

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