US Civil War Soldiers Discharge, Erastus L. Smith, 4th New York Heavy Artillery

Original period manufacture. Standard document, named to Erastus L. Smith, Company K, 4th New York Heavy Artillery. Enlisted December 1863, Discharged June 1865. During the war the 4th New York suffered the loss of 8 officers and 108 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, and an additional 4 officers and 334 enlisted men to disease. Top and bottom of the document has been lightly trimmed.