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Zachary Taylor

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Zachary Taylor

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Auction Date:2012 Dec 12 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
LS signed “Z. Taylor. Col., 1st Regt U.S. Infy, Comdg,” one page, 7.75 x 9.5, April 25, 1834. Col. Roger Jones, Adjutant General, U.S. Army. In full: “Herewith is returned agreeably to your directions the application of Capt MacRee for the Recruiting Service. He has been placed on that duty at St. Louis, Mo. with orders to open a Rendezvous & recruit for the 1st Regiment of Infantry.” In fine condition, with light toning along horizontal folds and some show-through from docketing on reverse. One of the officers in Capt. Samuel MacRee’s Company B, 1st Regiment of Infantry, was 2nd Lieut. Jefferson Davis. ‘The Papers of Jefferson Davis’ footnotes that while stationed at Fort Crawford, MacRee ‘became involved’ in Davis’ courtship of Zachary Taylor’s daughter Sarah Knox. Taylor had forbidden Davis to court her.