Mar 20 at 10:30 AM - Sale 2697 -

Sale 2697 - Lot 286

Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Deed of manumission for Maryland Civil War soldier Leonidas Gray, who died nine days after securing his freedom. Partly-printed Document Signed by Theresa Summers as owner, two witnesses, and by a justice of the peace. One page, 10 x 8 inches, with docketing on verso; partial separations at folds, lacking a 1½-inch blank portion of one corner. Montgomery County, MD, 12 October 1864
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We wish we could tell you that this manumission was the start of a happy story. Service records show that Leonidas Gray was drafted into the 30th United States Colored Troops in June 1864. A week after this document secured his freedom, he was sent to the military hospital for being "insane", and died of "insanity" two days after that.

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