Fall Discovery Auction
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James Polk Autograph Letter Signed as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee. Two pages, 8" x 10", Columbia, Tennessee, August 20, 1834. Ten years before his election as the eleventh president, James Polk writes to Peter Hagner, Third Auditor, Treasury Department, in Washington concerning the request of the wife of a U.S. soldier, uncertain whether or not her husband is dead. In part: "The widow of Ambrose Witt states that her husband enlisted in the year 1813 in the army of the U. States for the term of five years. She states that he enlisted in Rowan County, North Carolina in Capt. Hartin's company who belonged to Col. Wilburn's Regiment, and she remembers that one of the Majors of the Regiment was named Taylor. She states that her husband was marched with the troops to the North.
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