Partly-printed vellum DS, signed “R. E. Lee,” one page, 7.5 x 9.5, April 11, 1854. As superintendent of West Point, Lee authorizes a discharge. In part: “Know Ye, that Adam Straley a Private…The US Military Academy…Detachment Regiment of Dragoons…enlisted the Eleventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and Forty-nine to serve Five Years is hereby discharged from the Army of the United States in consequence of having Served his full term of Enlistment.” Signed at the conclusion by Lee and countersigned by George H. Thomas. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, moderately heavy creasing and wrinkling, and some of the writing and text light, including Thomas’s signature; Lee’s signature remains quite bold. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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