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General William Shafter Signs A Document While Commanding A Regiment Of Colored Infantry During The

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General William Shafter Signs A  Document While Commanding A Regiment Of Colored Infantry During The
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WILLIAM R. SHAFTER (1835 – 1906). Commander of the Expedition of United States forces on Cuba during the Spanish American War. Union Officer during the Civil War receiving the rank of Brevet Brigadier General near the war’s end. DS. 1 page. February 28, 1865. Partly-printed return of Ordnance and Ordnance Stores “turned over by me this 28th day of February, 1865, to Lt. A. F. Kliese”. Signed by Shafter while serving as Colonel of the 17th United States Colored Infantry. Less than a month later he would receive the brevet rank of general. A fine example of the future General while commanding Colored Troops in Tennessee as the end of the Confederate Army was looming. Excellent.