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Confederate Congressmen

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Civil War era booklet, 5 x 8, containing approximately 80 signatures of attendees of the 1st Confederate States Congress, which includes members from the following states:

Alabama: William Parish Chilton, Sr., Edmund Strother Dargan, Francis Strother Lyon, James Lawrence Pugh, William Russell Smith, and John Perkins Ralls.

Arkansas: Felix Ives Batson, Grandison Delaney Royston, Augustus Hill Garland, and Thomas Burton Hanly.

Florida: Robert Benjamin Hilton.

Georgia: Lucius Jeremiah Gartrell, Augustus Romaldus Wright, Robert Pleasant Trippe, David William Lewis, Julian Hartridge, William White Clark, Hardy Strickland, and Charles James Munnerlyn.

Kentucky: James William Moore, Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Jr., Willis Benson Machen, Eli Metcalfe Bruce, John Milton Elliott, Theodore Legrand Burnett, and George Washington Ewing.

Louisiana: Charles Magill Conrad, Duncan Farrar Kenner, Lucius Jacques Dupré, Henry Marshall, and Charles Jacques Villere.

Mississippi: Israel Victor Welch, Henry Cousins Chambers, Otho Robards Singleton, Ethelbert Barksdale, and John Jones McRae.

Missouri: Thomas Alexander Harris, Aaron H. Conrow, George Graham Vest, and Thomas W. Freeman.

North Carolina: William Nathan Harrell Smith, Robert Rufus Bridgers, Owen Rand Kenan, Allen Turner Davidson, Thomas Samuel Ashe, Thomas David Smith McDowell, Archibald Hunter Arrington, and William Lander.

South Carolina: William Dunlap Simpson, James Farrow, William Waters Boyce, John McQueen, and William Porcher Miles.

Tennessee: David Maney Currin, Erasmus Lee Gardenhire, John Vines Wright, William Graham Swan, Thomas Menees, George Washington Jones, Henry Stuart Foote, and Joseph Brown Heiskell.

Texas: John Allen Wilcox, Peter W. Gray, Caleb Claiborne Herbert, Franklin Barlow Sexton, and Malcolm D. Graham.

Virginia: Daniel Coleman DeJarnette, John Goode, Jr., Walter Preston, Alexander Boteler, Samuel Augustine Miller, John Brown Baldwin, Charles Fenton Collier, Muscoe Russell Hunter Garnett, and James Philemon Holcombe.

The booklet also features the signatures of Speaker Thomas S. Bocock and House Clerk Robert Emmett Dixon, Sr., as well as delegates of the Cherokee Nation, Elias Cornelius Boudinot, and the Choctaw Nation, Robert McDonald Jones. In very good to fine condition, with heavy soiling to the first page and covers detached. An impressive, nearly comprehensive collection of Confederate congressmen.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: Fine Autographs and Artifacts
  • Dates: #602 - Ended February 10, 2021