?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
COMPENSATION FOR THE WIDOW OF A COLORED VOLUNTEER (MILITARY.) Partly Printed Document, Accomplished in Manuscript, being an application for bounty by the widow of a colored volunteer. 3 pages, 4to; with 3 affixed tax stamps and an accompanying document certifying that the soldier died in a military hospital. Maryland, February 1866
George Green died in hospital in Brownsville, Texas in 1866. His regiment was the first to enter Richmond in April 1865. His widow here applies for compensation as per General Orders, No. 31 which gave the heirs of Black soldiers the sum of $100. After depositions of witnesses to her marriage, and other forms of verification, widow Green was granted her $100.
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