[Recommendation for] leave of absence [for] Clark H. Remick [dated] Folly Island, S.C., Aug. 24th 1863 / John V. DeGrasse. 1863.

De Grasse, John V., 1826-1868

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John van Salee de Grasse (sometimes written as DeGrasse) was born in 1826 in New York City. He had a sister, Serena, and older brother Isaac. Their mother was Maria Van Salee of New York, a free woman of color. (Her surname was sometimes recorded as Van Surly.) They were descendants through their mother's family of Jan Janszoon of Haarlem, Netherlands, and Margarita, a Moorish woman. That couple had four sons, who were mixed-race: two, Abraham Janszoon van Salee, and his brother Anthony, the bet...

United States. Army. North Carolina Volunteers, 1st.

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Remick, Clark H.

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