Description: Handwritten manuscript from Commodore James P. Parker (1855-1942) on Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States letterhead. Addressed to Edmund Zalinski, dated 1904. Recipient was Captain Edmund Zalinski, born in Poland in 1849, emigrated to America in 1853, and joined the Union Army in 1864 as a teenager. He went on to a long career as a military engineer and inventor, most notably developing the pneumatic dynamite torpedo-gun (called the Zalinski gun). This letter comes from a large archive of material received by Zalinski around the time of the Spanish-American war which he then presented to Gertrude Whiting for her autograph collection.
Price: 95 USD
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
End Time: 2024-01-30T19:06:37.000Z
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Signed by: James P. Parker