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- GLC#
- GLC04675.15-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- November 25, 1848
- Author/Creator
- Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849
- Title
- Certificate of Merit
- Pagination
- 1 p. : docket Height: 25.6 cm, Width: 41 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
This document is a certificate of merit for Private Balser Horn, it is signed by James K. Polk as President and countersigned by William L. Marcy as Secretary of War. Private Balser Horn performed with distinguished service during the Battle of Cerro Gordo. Partially printed document with clerical docket of Adjutant General's office on recto.
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