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Lot 136
[CIVIL WAR] 15th USCT Black Soldier's Discharge
Estimate: $500 - $750
Sold for
$500
Sold Price excludes BP
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Partly printed document completed in manuscript. Nashville, Tennessee, 7 April 1866. 1 page, 4to, 7 1/2 x 10 1/4 in.
A discharge document for William Laeket (alt. Locket) of Kentucky. Described here as "5 feet 7 inches high, black complexion, black eyes, black hair, and by occupation, when enrolled, a farmer."
He enlisted on 18 January 1864 at Nashville and was mustered in as a first sergeant of Company F in the 15th United States Colored Regiment. The unit mostly engaged in garrison and guard duty in Middle Tennessee, including at Nashville, Columbia, Pulaski, and Springfield.
A rare discharge document for a Black USCT noncommissioned officer.
[African Americana, African American History, Black History, Slavery, Enslavement, Abolition, Emancipation] [Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera] [Civil War, Union, Confederate]
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