BEDFORD COUNTY, TN - MILITARY - Discharge of Ready Patterson
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Discharge of Ready Patterson

TSLA, Bedford County Deeds, Book FFF page 50

Ready Patterson, Discharge
To whom it may concern. Know Ye that Ready Patterson, a Private of Captain
Clipt <unsure of spelling of last name> Company (M) Fifth Regiment of
Tennessee Calvary Volunteers who was enrolled on the eighteenth day of
September one thousand eight hundred and sixty three to serve three years
or during the war is hereby Discharged from the service of the United
States this fourteenth day of August 1865 at Pulaski, Tennessee by reason
of Special Order No (18) C. L. <unsure of previous two letters>  Mil Div
Tenn. (No objection to his being re-enlisted is known to exist.) Said Ready
Patterson was born in Bedford County in the State of Tennessee, is eighteen
years of age, five feet six inches high, fair complexion, light hair and by
occupation when enrolled, a Farmer. Given at Pulaski, Tenn. this fourteenth
day of August 1865

James Clipt, Captain <signed>
Commanding the Company

Frances Jackson, Capt A. C. M.
6th Division Calvary Corps, M. D. M.