Certifying payment for himself for a month's service, in a partly printed document, complete in manuscript and signed 31 December 1848, at West Point

by Confederate Major General, wing commander

$300 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

1848. Broadside document, 9 7/8 x 15 3/4 inches, a pay request for himself, a white servant, and his horse for the month of December, 1848. Smith, a native of Kentucky, was an 1843 graduate of West Point; he was brevetted three time in the Mexican War, served as an instructor at West Point, and worked on fortifications around the country, resigning his commission in 1854 to work as a civil engineer. Commissioned Major General, he commanded a wing of the Army of Northern Virginia in the

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