Wayne County NcArchives Photo Document.....Colonel George W. Collier ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Guy Potts http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00017.html#0004214 April 17, 2015, 11:21 pm Source: N C Archives Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/wayne/photos/documents/colonelg3948ph.jpg Image file size: 94.4 Kb THE STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA To George W. Collier of Wayne County, Greeting: We, reposing special trust and confidence in your patriotism, valor and military skill, do hereby commission you Colonel of the Twenty-seventh Regiment, of the Seventh Brigade, North- Carolina Militia, and we do hereby vest you with the authority appertaining to said office, to the end that you may promptly and diligently perform its duties, as prescribed by law; in the discharge of which all officers and soldiers under your command are required to yield you obedience. In Witness Whereof, Henry T. Clark, Speaker of the Senate, ex-officio our Governor, Captain-General and Commander-In-Chief, hath signed these presents, and caused our Great Seal to be affixed thereto Done at our City of Raleigh, on the 29th day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, and in the Eighty-sixth year of our Independence Henry T. Clark By the Governor J Cowper Private Secretary Registered on page 166 Roster of the Militia of North-Carolina J.G. Martin Adjutant General Additional Comments: NC Archives 1861-1865 PC 415 MARS Id: 925 (Group) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wayne/photos/documents/colonelg3948ph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.0 Kb