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Auction: 314 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1113

McKinley, William Choice partly engraved Document Signed "William McKinley" as President, 1 page, folio, Washington, July 13, 1898. He names Pierre W Woodlief a second lieutenant in the Second Volunteer Infantry. Rolled, some staining, VG. With the original mailing cylinder from the War Department addressed to Woodlief in Santiago, Cuba, where he was fighting in the Spanish-American War. Woodlief had already earned a place in the annals of American warfare: he was among the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute who were called to fight at the Battle of New Market back in 1864!

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