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[8TH GEORGIA]

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[8TH GEORGIA]
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[8TH GEORGIA] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>Confederate discharge. <b>War-date</b> partly printed DS, 1p, 8vo, Camp Walker, Georgia, Jan 18, 1862. Military discharge for Alfred W. Smith, a “<i>Private of 2nd Lt A.B. Gaddis Comdg Company, (K) of the eighth regiment of G.S.T....by reason of deafness.</i>..” Boldly “<i>Approved</i>” on verso by Lt. Col. </span><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>John S. Fair</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'> with rank, who later became Col of the 65th GA. Docketed on verso together with signed pay order and receipt signed by Fair. Light toning; slight show-through from endorsements on verso; o/w VG. The 8th GA State Troop fought at First Manassas in Bartow’s Brigade.</span></p>