12th Georgia Confederate Officers One Month Pay Voucher for 0!

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One page, two-sided document; approximately 9 1/4" X 8"
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12th Georgia Confederate Officers One Month Pay Voucher for Captain Mark Harden Blandford for 0!
Document is dated October 31st, 1862, and signed twice by Blandford with his regiment and rank; signed once by Capt. H.T. Massengale, Quartermaster, Army of Tennessee.
Blandford, a veteran of the
Mexican War
, served in the 12th Georgia, which participated in
Jackson's Valley Campaign
, at
Cheat Mountain
and the
Seven Days
, as well as most of the other major engagements of the
Army of Northern Virginia
.  By the time of the Seven Days, or shortly after, Blandford had left the army.  He represented Georgia in the
Second Confederate Congress
, 1864-1865, and served as a
Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia
in 1872.