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[CIVIL WAR]. Pair of Documents providing funds for Impressment Service in Alabama,1863, and clipped signature John C. Calhoun.
Pair of documents from Alabama, Montgomery, Ala., both dated April 1st, 1863 and both bearing the item number 233. One from the Executive Department, signed by John Gill Shorter, Governor; the other from the Office of Auditor of the Treasury, signed by George Goldthwaite (1809-1877), General of State forces. Marked as being for the use of I.M. Agee, Impressment (Recruitment?) Service.
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Clipped signature of John C. Calhoun (1782-1850, Secretary of War and Vice President). A native of South Carolina, Calhoun was known as a defender of slavery.
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