Reder family

Scope and Contents This collection includes several items regarding William B. Kelly's service in the Mexican-American War: a certificate of disability and discharge, dated August 8, 1846 and signed by Captain Stanislaus Lasselle and Col. James P. Drake and with stamps by the U.S. Pension Office dated December 13, 1913; a handwritten list of names of the men in his regiment; and a handwritten copy (written in pencil on the back page of the regiment list) of an August 9, 1846 letter signed by Col. Drake granting a...