Raynors HCA 2018-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/15/2018
An historic Civil War archive of over sixty-four (64) letters, documents, postcards related to the military service of Artificer Arthur W. Currier, Co. I, 1st Michigan Mechanics and Engineers. The archive begins in August 1862 with recruiting officer Capt. James W. Sligh of the 1st Michigan Mechanics and Engineers certifying Currier's enlistment in his regiment…PLUS; 1p. 4to., manuscript "Special Orders No. 1" written by Major John B. Yates, as commander of the 1st Mich., Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 3, 1864 giving Currier and another man a furlough in order to go to Louisville to settle his clothing accounts…PLUS; letter, 4pp. 8vo., Plainfield, Mich., Aug. 4, 1863 from friends back home…PLUS; partly-printed, 1p. 4to., Pension Office, Nov. 23, 1863 allowing Currier extra pension pay starting in Dec. 1862…PLUS; partly-printed, 1p. 4to., pension affidavit form, Feb. 4, 1867 being a true copy of Curriers 1865 discharge…PLUS; nineteen (19) partly-printed, 1p. 4to., ca. 1860's to turn of the century, State of Michigan's pension claim forms, and letters each with lengthy description of Currier's disabilities caused by his service given by Currier himself, surgeons who attended him with the remaining by his comrades…PLUS; forty-two (42) Department of the Interior Penison office documents, mostly 1p. 4to., ca. 1880's to turn of the century concerning Currier's ongoing pension claims and postcards…PLUS; small uncounted batch of estate documents and deeds. Expected wear, else VG.
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