TAYLOR ZACHARY Letter Signed Z Taylor B[reve]tB[rigadie]rGen

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WRITTEN IN WEEKS BEFORE DECLARATION OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN WAR TAYLOR, ZACHARY. Letter Signed, "Z. Taylor, B[reve]tB[rigadie]rGen[era]l / U.S.A Com[man]d[in]g," to Secretary of War William L. Macy, recommending that he consider the application of Lieutenant Nathan B. Ropell to the rifle corps. 1 page, 4to, with integral blank; horizontal folds. Corpus Christi, 20 January 1846

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". . . Mr. Ropell is a native of New Jersey of respectable connexions, and the son of a deceased officer of the U.S. Army--of exemplary habits, and deportment. He is ambitious of promotion, and is an applicant for the proposed rifle Corps under consideration of Congress."