Levi Porter - Civil War Documents
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Levi Porter's Furlough and Discharge
Four days rations in kind given at Lynchburg, VA on the 22nd Mar. 1865 Jno McGaln Mar. 23, 1865 Two days rations issued RD Gardner Lt. Col. Comdg Post One days rations issued March 21, 1865 J. Chamberlaine --------------------------------- SOLDIER DISCHARGE TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Know Ye, That Levi Porter a __________ of Captain R.G. Poring _____Company, Eight Regiment of Virginia Cavalry, who was enlisted the twenty seventh day of July one thousand eight hundred and sixty one to serve one year in hereby HONORABLY discharged from the Army of the Confederate States. Levi S. Porter ___________________________________________________conscripted two years _______________________________________to the conscription Bill. Said Levi S. Porter was born in Grayson Co. in the State of Virginia. Is seventeen years of age. Five feet _____ inches high, dark complexion, blue eyes, Sandy hair, and by occupation when enlisted a farmer. Given at Grayson ____ this third day of _______ R.G. Poring Capt. Co. C 8th Virginia Cavalry