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LARGE GROUP OF CIVIL WAR PAY VOUCHERS FROM COATES KINNEY.

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LARGE GROUP OF CIVIL WAR PAY VOUCHERS FROM COATES KINNEY.
LARGE GROUP OF CIVIL WAR PAY VOUCHERS FROM COATES KINNEY. Lot of 78 voucher copies and account sheets from August and September 1864, from the archives of Coates Kinney, Paymaster of Volunteers, U.S. Army. The documents are in a marbled paper-covered board document box, which has protected most of them from toning and wear. Most of the personnel paid in this lot were officers (including 3 Generals) on leave at Cincinnati, a few with Surgeon's certificates, plus some surgeons at the Cincinnati Hospital, and the paymaster himself and his clerks. There are also 11 vouchers to wives of soldiers, 9 of whom were POWs, 1 MIA and 1 hospitalized. Interestingly, all officers except 1 also received pay and clothing allowances for servants (not soldiers). It is possibly noteworthy that Kinney himself had 2 servants, both black females, 1 surgeon had a white female and a black male servant, and the servants of the other surgeons are listed as "light." Most of the officers' servants are black males. The Generals who were paid in Cincinnati in summer of 1864 and endorsed their vouchers, include August (von) Willich, Eliakim Parker Scammon, and James Blair Steedman. Willich was a Prussian-born army kid, earning a reputation as a disciplinarian in the Civil War, and distinguishing himself at Shiloh, Perryville and Murfreesboro, where he was captured after his horse was killed under him. He was exchanged in time to fight at Chickamauga and Atlanta, where he was wounded. Upon recovery, he served the remainder of the war in Cincinnati, where he took civilian positions afterward. Willich was an admirer of Karl Marx and ardent communist, who tried to overthrow the monarchy at home in 1848, but then offered his services to the King in 1870 when his homeland was threatened by France. Steedman was PA born, holding a number of jobs before the war including U.S. government printer, California 49er, member of the Ohio legislature and owner of the Toledo Times. He became Brig. Genl. In 1862, serving at Perryville, Murfreesboro, Atlanta and Nashville. At Chickamauga he performed "...the most conspicuous act of personal courage recorded of any general officer on the Federal side." After the war he served as editor of a Toledo paper, Ohio state senator and Toledo chief of police. Scammon was a professional military man, graduating from the Military academy in 1837, serving as officer of Topographical Engineers, in the Seminole Wars in FL, and with Winfield Scott at Vera Cruz. After he was dismissed from service in New Mexico for "Conduct to the Prejudice of Good Order...", he became a parochial school teacher in Cincinnati. At the outbreak of war he was commissioned as colonel in 23rd OVI, serving with Burnside in the Kanawha Division. He made Brigadier General in 1862, and was captured in Feb. of 1864 and held until August of that year. He spent the final months of the war back in Florida. A few have some edge toning, all are somewhat musty, but overall in good condition, with no separations, etc. PLEASE NOTE: THIS LOT WILL BE SOLD ON EBAY LIVE AUCTIONS BETWEEN 5:00-6:00pm EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME ON MAY 10, 2002. REGISTER NOW TO BID LIVE ONLINE THE DAY OF THE SALE! (EST 1000-1500)
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