Endorsing A Voucher Of Payment For A Group Of Laborers On The Memphis Charleston Rail Road Signed

by Union Major General Corps Army Commander

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Partly printed form, 8 1/2 x 14 inches, completed in a clerical hand and signed by McPherson; the form was printed for the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, the notation for the Memphis & Charleston R.R. added in manuscript, and was also signed by a foreman and seven laborers for completed work. An Ohio native, McPherson finished first in West Point's class of 1853 and served in the Corps of Engineers until the outbreak of war. His meteoric rise took him from lieutenant of engineers in August,

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