Collection: Military Service RecordsSource: National ArchivesDate: 1838 May 10
Six Month Enlistment
Jarrett Foster enlisted at a time of Cherokee removal from East Tennessee and the Second Seminole War in Florida.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN,
Know ye that Jarrett Foster, a private of Captain John Elliott’s company of mounted Tennessee Volunteers commanded by Major William Lauderdale, who was enrolled on the 1st day of November 1837, to serve for the period of Six Months, having served faithfully, is hereby honorably discharged.
Given at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this 10th day of May 1838.
John Elliott, Captain
William _ Foster, Lieutenant Colonel, 4th Infantry
Inspecting & Mustering Officer