1865 Discharge Certificate for Robert Brown of the 2nd Louisiana Native Guard Regiment, the First Black Union Army Unit in the Civil War – Signed by Captain Hannibal Carter, a former soldier in the Co

by CARTER, Hannibal; (Robert Brown)

$25,000 · Offered by Between the Covers

Ship Island, Mississippi: 1865. Printed certificate completed in manuscript. 8” x 10”. Two slight original horizontal folds, near fine. This Union Army “Certificate to be Given to Union Volunteers at the Time of their Discharge” was issued for Robert Brown, an African-American Private in Company C of the Second Regiment..... More

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