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Petition subject: Military service

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455144

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Archibald M. Howe, Cambridge; committee on military affairs

Selected signatures:

1. William Lloyd Garrison
2. George T. Garrison

Actions taken on dates: 1891-01-16,1891-01-19

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 16, 1891 and referred to the committee on military affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 19, 1891 and concurred

Total signatures: 2

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: George Pearse Guerrier, Civil War, second lieutenant in 1st North Carolina Colored Volunteers, 35th U.S. Colored Infantry, Wendell Phillips, John A. Andrew, governor, invalided, pensioner, disability, 22nd Massachusetts volunteers, Yorktown, peninsular, Battle of Hanover Court House, Battle of Slash Church, Virginia, seven day's fight, Battle of Gaines' Mill, Richmond, Libby's, Libby Prison, jail, prisoner, siege of Sumter, Battle of Fort Sumter, battles of Florida, sun stroke ,trenches, includes memorandum of services, [additional documents, see records, testimonials in folder]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1891, c.11, passed March 6, 1891

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.