EQUALIZATION BOUNTY BILL! AS PASSED BY CONGRESS JULY 27 1866 GIVES $100 ADDITIONAL BOUNTY! TO EVERY HONORABLY DISCHARGED SOLDIER WHO ENLISTED INTO THE ARMY OF THE UNITED STATES SINCE APRIL 19TH 1861.
186634046Columbus Ohio 1866. Folio broadside printed on yellow paper 13" x 18". A variety of bold type sizes and fonts. A couple of closed tears no loss which do not impair text. Else Very Good.<br/><br/> T.W. Tallmadge of Columbus Authorized Military Claim Agent offers his services and explains the terms of the Bounty Bill and its eligible recipients. Tallmadge "will prepare your applications for BOUNTY and PENSION at once and proposes to visit WASHINGTON CITY to hasten the collection thereof. His experience and facilities for collecting claims are unsurpassed by any other attorney." <br/> Tallmadge is recommended by none other than Major General William Tecumseh Sherman in the following note printed along the left margin dated February 22 1866 from St. Louis: "I have known Theodore W. Tallmadge since his childhood and his father and family quite as long but have never had any personal knowledge of his business. Being applied to I am willing to express my belief that he is worthy of confidence and capable to discharge the business he has undertaken at Columbus Ohio as Military Claim Agent."<br/>Not located on OCLC as of August 2017. unknown books
