[Printed text] To all whom it may Concern [Printed text] Know ye, That, [Handwritten text] Fredrick Brose [Handwritten text] Private [Printed text] of Captain [Handwritten text] H W Werth [Printed text] Company, ( ,) [Handwritten text] 5th [Printed text] Regiment of [Handwritten text]MSM [Printed text] VOLUNTEERS who was enrolled on the [Handwritten text] Eighth [Printed text]day of [Handwritten text] May [Printed text] one thousand eight hundred and [Handwritten text] Sixty Three [Printed text] to serve ____[Printed text] years or during the war, is here by Discharged from the service of the United States, this [Handwritten text] 8th [Printed text] day of [Handwritten text] July[Printed text] , 186 [Handwritten text] 5, [Printed text] at [Handwritten text] Benton Barracks Mo [Printed text] by reason of [Handwritten text] Telegram from A. G. june 14/ 65’ [Printed text] (No objection to his being re=enlisted is known to exist. *) [Printed text] Said [Handwritten text] Fredrick Brose [Printed text] was born in [Handwritten text]Benton (?) [Printed text] in the State of [Handwritten text] Hanover[ Printed text] , is [Handwritten text] 20 [Printed text] years of age, [Handwritten text] 5 [Printed text] feet [Handwritten text] 11 [Printed text] inches high, [Handwritten text] Dark [Printed text] complexion, [Handwritten text] Blue [Printed text] eyes, [Handwritten text] Light [Printed text] hair, and by occupation, when enrolled, a [Handwritten text] Farmer [Printed text] Given at [Handwritten text] Benton Barracks [Printed text] this [Handwritten text] 8th [Printed text] day of [Handwritten text] July [Printed text] 186 [Handwritten text] 5 [Printed text] This sentence will be erased should there be anything in the conduct or physical condition of the soldier rendering him unfit for the Army. [Printed text] [A.G. O. No. 99.] [Handwritten text] H W Werth Capt Consoliated Company 5th MSM Cav Comdg Company [Handwritten vertically] Paid in full July 10th 1865 [MS Illegible] Paymaster [MS Illegible] [Handwritten Vertically] Office Second Comptroller Home pay 13.20 [MS Illegible] Certificate no, 372 368, October 2nd 1870 [MS Illegible]
Confluence & Crossroads - The Civil War in the American Heartland
