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Subscription List To Purchase A Presentation Sword For Union General Charles K. Graham

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Subscription List To Purchase A Presentation  Sword For Union General Charles K. Graham
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Manuscript Document. Multiple pages tipped together, 32” x 7 ½”. No place. No date [Spring 1864]. The document reads, in part: “We the undersigned Commissioned Officers, Non-Commissioned officers & Privates of the 105th Regt. Penna Vol Infantry Subscribed the Sums opposite our names to purchase a Sword, Sash, Belt or such other present as the committee may adopt for Brig General Charles K. Graham, as an expression of our admiration for him as a Soldier & our commanding officer …” Below this statement, over fifty individuals have signed their names and noted the sum they have subscribed.
Having served in the Mexican War, Charles Kincaid Graham (1824-1889) entered the Civil War as a member of the 74th New York, which took part in McClellan’s Peninsular campaign and saw action at Seven Pines and in the Seven Day’s Battle. Retiring from the field for nearly a year due to health concerns, Graham, now a brigadier general of volunteers, was wounded and captured by Confederate forces at Gettysburg in 1863. Exchanged months later, Graham went on to serve as commander of the army gunboats in Benjamin F. Butler’s Army of the James until the end of the Civil War. As the large subscriber list shows, Graham was well liked and respected by those under his command. It should also be noted that five of the subscribers listed on this document were awarded the Kearney Cross and a number of others were killed during the bloody Battle of the Wilderness. An exceptional document illustrating the close bonds established by soldiers during wartime. Fine.