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Nelson Miles Presentation Pocket Watch

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Jewelry & Watches Start Price:700.00 USD Estimated At:7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD
Nelson Miles Presentation Pocket Watch
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Engraved pocket watch "Presented to Lieut. N. A. Miles of the 22nd Mass. Infantry May 1862"
Key wind, swing-out face case with covered inscription, working, marked "J. H. Hollister - Greenfield Mass" No. 10986.
Included with lot is a framed letter from Nelson Miles, dated February 8, 1898 on “Headquarter of the Army, Washington” letterhead. Framed together with a Nelson Miles signature and two copies of photographs.

Nelson Miles (1839-1925)
Nelson Appleton Miles was a United States soldier who served in the American Civil War, Indian Wars, and the Spanish–American War. Miles played a leading role in nearly all of the U.S. Army's campaigns against the American Indian tribes of the Great Plains. He was issued a Medal of Honor in 1892 for, “Distinguished gallantry while holding with his command an advanced position against repeated assaults by a strong force of the enemy; was severely wounded.”