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Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss (1816-1894) [By Command of Brig. General N. P. Banks]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04197.26 Author/Creator: Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss (1816-1894) Place Written: s.l. Type: Document Date: 1862/04/03 Pagination: Order a Copy

Signed by R. Morris Copeland. "Special Order No. 3" granting James R. Kelly a sixty-day leave of absence for "wounds received at the Battle of Winchester."

Kelly, James R., 1839-1862
Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, 1816-1894
Copeland, R. Morris, fl. 1862

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