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Regiment: 2nd Michigan Infantry
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Historical Figures:
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Know ye, that Samuel M. Holton
a Private of Captain Cornelius Byinglous
Company, (C ), 2ne Regiment of Michigan Infantry
Volunteers, who was enrolled on the 22nd day of April
one thousand eight hundred and Sixty One to serve three years or
during the war, is hereby DISCHARGED from the service of the United States
this 21st day of July ,1864 , at Detroit
Michigan by reason Expiration of terms of service
(No objection to his being re-enlisted is known to exists*)
Said Samuel M Holton was born in Yates County
in the State of New York , is 23 years of age,
Five feet ten inches high, light complexion, black eyes
black hair, and by occupation, when enrolled, a Medical student
Given at Detroit Michigan this Twenty First day of
July 1864 .
(*This sentence will be erased should there be anything
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in the conduct or physical condition of the soldier 1st Lieut 13th Infy mo
rendering him unfit for the Army.) Commanding the Reg’t
[A. G. O., No. 99.]
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
