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With Scarce Provost Marshal's Handstamp.

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With Scarce Provost Marshal's Handstamp.
Manuscript Union pass, Washington, D.C., May 22, 1865, 5 x 6 1/4, with seldom-seen black circular handstamp, "Provost Marshal General's Office / Defences North Potomac / Approved." "Guards & Patrol: The bearers hereof Pvts. Yowers & Fuller and one other are Orderlies to Genl. MacDougall and are in charge of Hd.Qr. horses now in town." Signed by "Johnston, Capt...." Folded into sixths, to be carried in pocket or wallet. On verso, contemporary list in pencil, with weight and price of sugar, butter, flour, tea, pepper, pork, potatoes, and beans, perhaps purchased for the General and his men. One fold reinforced on verso with short strip of white gummed paper, wear at two fold junctions, toning on verso, else good plus. Technically, the war still continued: it was not until four days later that Southern resistance on land ended in New Orleans, and on sea at Galveston, on June 2.