Raynor HCA 2014-01
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GRIERSON, Benjamin Henry (1826-1911) a career officer in the United States Army, was a cavalry general in the volunteer Union Army during the Civil War and later led troops in the American Old West. He is most noted for an 1863 expedition through Confederate-held territory that severed enemy communication lines between Vicksburg, Mississippi and Confederate commanders in the Eastern Theater. After the war he organized the 10th U.S. Cavalry, one of two mounted regiments composed of black enlisted men and white officers, called the Buffalo Soldiers. Document Signed “B.H. Grierson, Colonel 10th Cavalry” on vellum, 14-1/2” x 9-1/2,” September 1, 1878, minor spotting, VG. This commission appoints Private Charles Farwell to Corporal in Company C of the TENTH regiment cavalry ....”
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