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Lot 419
[CIVIL WAR] Grant's Special Orders for Free Embalming Services
Estimate: $250 - $500
Sold for
$450
Sold Price excludes BP
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Manuscript document. Headquarters, City Point, Virginia, 9 January 1865. 1 page, folio.
An order issued by Lt. General Ulysses S. Grant: "All embalming Surgeons having been excluded from the lines of the armies operating against Richmond, the friends and relations of officers and soldiers are hereby notified that hereafter the bodies of officers and soldiers who die at Genl. or Base Hospitals can be embalmed without charge upon making personal application to the Chief Medical Officers of Hospitals. Applications for the embalming of Officers and Soldiers who die at the Div. Hospital or on the field of Battle, must be made to [the] Medical Director of the Corps to which such officers and soldiers belonged."
An interesting order issued as Grant prepared to push for the conclusion to the war.
[Civil War, Union, Confederate] [Manuscripts, Documents, Letters, Ephemera, Signatures, Autographs] [Medical History, Medical Photography]
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