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Included are various military documents, comprised of letters informing promotion, orders restructuring the placement of officers within Tennessee, certificate of the rank of Sergeant and a detailed roster of the composition of the Army of the Cumberland.

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection contains the official and personal documents of Joseph C. Read through his Union Army military career in the Civil War and subsequent retirement in Fernandina, Florida. Read, during the war, rose from the rank of Sergeant to Brevet Colonel, supplied General Sherman’s siege of Atlanta, as well as partook in many of the major battles in the South during the Civil War. Included are various military documents, comprised of letters informing promotion, orders...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection contains the official and personal documents of Joseph C. Read through his Union Army military career in the Civil War and subsequent retirement in Fernandina, Florida. Read, during the war, rose from the rank of Sergeant to Brevet Colonel, supplied General Sherman’s siege of Atlanta, as well as partook in many of the major battles in the South during the Civil War. Included are various military documents, comprised of letters informing promotion, orders...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection contains the official and personal documents of Joseph C. Read through his Union Army military career in the Civil War and subsequent retirement in Fernandina, Florida. Read, during the war, rose from the rank of Sergeant to Brevet Colonel, supplied General Sherman’s siege of Atlanta, as well as partook in many of the major battles in the South during the Civil War. Included are various military documents, comprised of letters informing promotion, orders...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection contains the official and personal documents of Joseph C. Read through his Union Army military career in the Civil War and subsequent retirement in Fernandina, Florida. Read, during the war, rose from the rank of Sergeant to Brevet Colonel, supplied General Sherman’s siege of Atlanta, as well as partook in many of the major battles in the South during the Civil War. Included are various military documents, comprised of letters informing promotion, orders...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: This collection contains the official and personal documents of Joseph C. Read through his Union Army military career in the Civil War and subsequent retirement in Fernandina, Florida. Read, during the war, rose from the rank of Sergeant to Brevet Colonel, supplied General Sherman’s siege of Atlanta, as well as partook in many of the major battles in the South during the Civil War. Included are various military documents, comprised of letters informing promotion, orders...

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Reunion materials are included in the collection. These are mostly invitations to gatherings for those a part of Read's original Pennsylvania Volunteers unit or the Army of the Cumberland. The invitations and newsletters are addressed to where Read would retire, Fernandina, Florida.