2pp, pre-printed form, framed in double-sided, double view brown wood, w/hang-wire. Document measures 7.25” x 9.75, and it matted on the obverse in gray. Tintype image, 2” x 2, within frame, obverse side. Image dark and somewhat oxidized, sharp and clear.

This “Volunteer Enlistment” certificate was issued and signed by both state and local officials, dated December 17,1863, and on the reverse contains the “Declaration of Recruit.”

As for particulars, John B. Williams, aged 18, had blue eyes, black hair, dark complexion, and was 5’11” in height.  He Enlisted as a private with $75 of bounty, on 12/17/1863,  mustering into Co. “M”, 24^th New York Cavalry, 2/19/1864. Promoted Sergeant 1/1/1865, he was mustered out 6/26/1865, listed as a “supernumerary.”

Organized in December and January 1863-64, the 24^th New York Cavalry served as infantry in Gen. Burnside’s 9^th Corps during the Rapidan “Overland Campaign,” of May/June 1864, engaged at the Battles of the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, Cold Harbor, and the Siege of Petersburg. Mounted as cavalry in October 1864, the unit was engaged at Boyton Plank road, Hatcher’s run and the Appomattox Campaign, Five Forks and Sailors Creek, and the surrender of Lee’s Army. During service the regiment lost 114 killed and mortally wounded and 134 men by disease for a total of 248.

An attractively framed enlistment document, w/sharp image of a sharp soldier, an 18 year old promoted from private to Sergeant in a year of hard fighting and many battles. Solid New York regimental collectible.  [JP] [ph:L]

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