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Regiment: 1st Michigan Engineers
Battles Mentioned:
Historical Figures:
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Know ye, that John Appleton
a Sergeant of Captain Daniel M Moor
Company, (G ), First Regiment of Mich Engres + Mechs
Volunteers, who was enrolled on the Twenty-fourth day of December
one thousand eight hundred and Sixty-two to serve Three years or
during the war, is hereby DISCHARGED from the service of the United States
this Twenty second day of September , 1865 , at Nashville
Tennessee by reason of S. O. No, 65. Dept Tennessee
(No objection to his being re-enlisted is known to exists*)
Said John Appleton was born in Leeds
in the State of England , is Thirty nin years of age,
five feet nine inches high, Fair complexion, Hazel eyes
Dark hair, and by occupation, when enrolled, a Carpenter
Given at Nashville Tenn this Twenty second day of
September 1865.
(*This sentence will be erased should there be anything John T. Morris
in the conduct or physical condition of the soldier Capt A.C.N. 1
st Div 4
th A.C.
rendering him unfit for the Army.) Commanding the Reg’t
[A. G. O., No. 99.]
Daniel M. Moone
Capt Comdg Co. “G” 1st Mich Engrs.
OATH OF IDENTITY
of the town of
County of in the State of
on this day of in the year
one thousand eight hundred and sixty personally appeared
before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace for the County
and above mentioned
who, being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the
identical who was
a in the Company commanded by
Captain in the Regiment
commanded by
that he enlisted on the day of
for the term of and was discharged
at on the day
of by reason of
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year above written
I certify that before
whom the above affidavit purports to have been made, is a Justice
of the Peace duly authorized to administer oaths, and that the
above is his signature.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed
L.S. my official seal, this day of
in the year
at in the State of
Clerk of the