Bidspirit auction | (COHEN, SOLOMON). Medical Discharge. Many

(COHEN, SOLOMON). Medical Discharge. Many signatures and endorsements on its way up the chain of command including that of Col. A. C. Myers as Quartermaster General on November 7th and with note: “BY ORDER OF GENERAL LEE.” Two pages on brown paper, many hands. 8vo. Fort Gaines (Dauphin Island, Alabama), 27th October, 1862 Private Solomon Cohen of Company I, 51st Georgia Infantry, served from March 22, 1862 to January 3, 1864. He fought at Second Manassas and Antietam. Here, he is is assigned as a tailor and exempt from reporting for duty resulting from his contracting kidney and bronchial infections.