Jun 21, 2018 - Sale 2483

Sale 2483 - Lot 214

Price Realized: $ 1,690
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
TAYLOR, ZACHARY. Letter Signed, "ZTaylorL[ieu]t[enant]C[olonel]," to Colonel R. Jones, sending a return from the previous month [not present]. 1 page, 4to; complete separations at horizontal folds repaired with tissue verso, remnants of prior mounting at upper edge verso. "Fort Crawford" [Prairie du Chien, WI], 10 January 1830

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"You will receive enclosed a recruiting Return of the 1st Reg't Inf. for the months of November and December, 1829.
". . . I have to state that the 'duplicate enlistment' of Inman[?] &c was forwarded to your office the 5th November; Tope's enlistment has not yet been received from Captain Harvey . . . ."
The troops garrisoned at Fort Crawford, under the command of Taylor, took part in the Black Hawk War in 1832.