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Standard size business card featuring GAR membership badge at left in full color; at center printed in script lettering is “J. C. Palmer”, and at lower right is “Driskell Post, No. 209, / Stationed at Paris, Ill.” Very nice, clean condition. On reverse in pencil is “Lula Barnett, / Short [?] / Ill”. It’s not known what connection she had to Palmer, if any.
John C. Palmer was born in Washington County, OH in 1837. In 1861 he was a carpenter residing in Leavenworth, KS when he enlisted as a private, mustering in to Co. A, 5th Kansas Cavalry on 7/16/61. On 10/15/62 he was discharged for promotion to 2nd Lieutenant, and mustered into the 2nd IT {Indian Troops} Home Guards Cavalry. Discharged, date not stated. Following the war he resided in Kansas, and at some point moved to Illinois, where he was a member of GAR Post# 209 in Paris, IL. Palmer died in Paris on May 6, 1909, and is buried there in Edgar Cemetery. [ld] [ph:L]
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