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Gainesville, Virginia was an important Union Army supply depot on the Manassas Gap Railroad during the Civil War. An original Union Army Ordnance Invoice listing 259 rounds 12 pounder shells and 130 spherical shot rounds etc turned over by Captain Morris Shaff, at Gainesville, Virginia, Oct 28, 1863, to Capt RA Stanton, Ordnance Officer. 1p 8 x 11" ptd/ink, w rev illus of the Ordnance crossed cannon seal. & signed by Captain Morris Shaff. Comes w service info for Captain Shaff, a West Point graduate who served as Ordnance Officer during the War. Morris Shaff, a Kirkersville, Ohio native was a West Point friend of Custer & John Pelham & author of "The Spirit of Old West Point" and "Battle of the Wilderness". 1p 8 x 11" ptd/ink w ordnance seal. Minor age stains, edge wear, Overall VG. Welcome to my Ebay Auctions and Ebay Store. I am a specialist in early American Military & Historical items, especially American Civil War ephemera- letters, military & historic documents including broadsides, commissions, General Orders and other imprints and badges. I have been collecting and selling original American Civil War & US Military memorabilia for 41 years. PLEASE SEE MY EBAY STORE FOR OTHER CIVIL WAR AND EARLY AMERICAN MILITARIA LISTINGS. I am a longtime member of the Company of Military Historians, the New England Antique Arms Association, the Ephemera Society of America & the Civil War Veterans Historical Assn. My customers have included some of the leading names in collecting and selling American History items, as well was as a wide range of novice & advanced collectors in addition to some 30 US federal, state, public and private university & municipal museums and libraries. NOTE: Any repair to a paper item is listed. I use only museum curator approved archival repair tape. All items are unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic and in the condition as described. . I ship only USPS priority mail with insurance