Group of Civil War and Other Ephemera Relating to John Milton Bancroft, Sergeant and 1st Lieutenant, (1838-1918), including a typewritten copy of Bancroft's diary and letters from 1861 to 1864, detailing life in the Army of the Potomac, 5th Corps, 1st Division, 2nd Brigade, 4th Michigan infantry; Bancroft's muster-in roll dated 16th May 1861, commanded by Harrison H. Jeffords; handwritten "Inventory of Camp and Garrison Equipage on Hand in 4th Michigan Regiment of Volunteer Infantry on the 6th Day if July 1868," Bancroft's discharge papers from the Michigan Volunteers in 1863; an eight-plate ambrotype of Bancroft as a young man; carte de visite of Bancroft in uniform; a tintype of Bancroft in middle age; copy of a group portrait of veterans of the 4th Michigan (original 1889); various later letters and papers. Note: John Milton Bancroft, a civil engineer, was born in Reading, Massachusetts. See lots 278 and 278A for additional material on the Bancroft family.
Group of Civil War and Other Ephemera Relating to John Milton Bancroft, Sergeant and 1st Lieutenant, (1838-1918), including a typewritten copy of Bancroft's diary and letters from 1861 to 1864, detailing life in the Army of the Potomac, 5th Corps, 1st Division, 2nd Brigade, 4th Michigan infantry; Bancroft's muster-in roll dated 16th May 1861, commanded by Harrison H. Jeffords; handwritten "Inventory of Camp and Garrison Equipage on Hand in 4th Michigan Regiment of Volunteer Infantry on the 6th Day if July 1868," Bancroft's discharge papers from the Michigan Volunteers in 1863; an eight-plate ambrotype of Bancroft as a young man; carte de visite of Bancroft in uniform; a tintype of Bancroft in middle age; copy of a group portrait of veterans of the 4th Michigan (original 1889); various later letters and papers. Note: John Milton Bancroft, a civil engineer, was born in Reading, Massachusetts. See lots 278 and 278A for additional material on the Bancroft family.
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