Document signed : War Department, 1868 Nov. 28.

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Document signed : War Department, 1868 Nov. 28.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270635012

Attesting to the genuineness of a signature of James A. Ekin.

1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Ekin was born August 31, 1819 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to James and Susan Burling (Bayard) Ekin. His mother was a daughter of Colonel Stephen A. Bayard of the Continental Army. He served an apprenticeship as a steamboat builder, which eventually led to his first career as a steamboat builder in Pittsburgh. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Ekin enlisted April 25, 1861 in the 12th Pennsylvania Infantry (a 3-month regiment) as a lieutenant and was assigned regimental quartermaster. Ekin mus...

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