Three items: Special Orders, one page, 7.75 x 9.75, Headquarters 1st Division 1st Army Corps, Camp Stoneman, DC letterhead, May 31, 1865. Special Order No. 22 in which “Private S. J. Lee Company B 18th Connecticut Vols. is hereby relieved from duty at these Head Quarters,” signed at the conclusion by the Brevet Major General; war-dated ALS signed “S. C. Benjamin,” one lined page, 7.75 x 9.75, Office Act’g Chief Quartermaster, Army of West VA. letterhead, November 12, 1864. Chief Clerk Benjamin writes a letter granting Lee “permission to remain over Thanksgiving,” instructing Lee to “return to this place by the 30th of this month”; and a war-dated traveling pass, one page, 7.5 x 4.5, Head Quarters, First Separate Brigade, Department West Virginia, Harper’s Ferry letterhead, April 24, 1864. Message informs all “Guards, Patrols & Pickets Inside our lines” to pass Stephen J. Lee, “Printer for the Head Quarters, at all Homes night and day until further notice.” In very good condition, with light toning, scattered soiling, and overlapping purple endorsement to the first document, and intersecting folds, scattered toning, and soiling to the remaining two. RRAuction COA.
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