![AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO ALABAMA GOVERNOR SHORTER, AGREEING THAT RAISING A COMPANY OF EXEMPTS IS NECESSARY FOR PROTECTION AGAINST "INSURRECTIONARY MOVEMENTS" AND PROPOSING TO RAISE A COMPANY OF HORSEMEN "FOR HOME PROTECTION.](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/069/219/1323219069.0.m.jpg)
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO ALABAMA GOVERNOR SHORTER, AGREEING THAT RAISING A COMPANY OF EXEMPTS IS NECESSARY FOR PROTECTION AGAINST "INSURRECTIONARY MOVEMENTS" AND PROPOSING TO RAISE A COMPANY OF HORSEMEN "FOR HOME PROTECTION.
by Pack, James T
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Woodbridge, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Hamburg, Alabama, 1862. Single leaf, in ink manuscript on recto, docketed on verso. Old folds, Near Fine.
Having reviewed Governor Shorter's "proclamation calling on all exempts to form into Companies," Pack says he has "been thinking of getting up a company for Home protection, for our Country will be when the conscripts leave, very scarce of men & I think for the keeping down of Insurrectionary Movements these organizations will do much. I will ask
you also if a company of horsemen would not be preferable." Pack, a Hamburg farmer, owned 45 slaves, according to the 1860 census, and was one of the largest slaveholders in that county.
Having reviewed Governor Shorter's "proclamation calling on all exempts to form into Companies," Pack says he has "been thinking of getting up a company for Home protection, for our Country will be when the conscripts leave, very scarce of men & I think for the keeping down of Insurrectionary Movements these organizations will do much. I will ask
you also if a company of horsemen would not be preferable." Pack, a Hamburg farmer, owned 45 slaves, according to the 1860 census, and was one of the largest slaveholders in that county.
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- Bookseller
- David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 36826
- Title
- AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO ALABAMA GOVERNOR SHORTER, AGREEING THAT RAISING A COMPANY OF EXEMPTS IS NECESSARY FOR PROTECTION AGAINST "INSURRECTIONARY MOVEMENTS" AND PROPOSING TO RAISE A COMPANY OF HORSEMEN "FOR HOME PROTECTION.
- Author
- Pack, James T
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Place of Publication
- Hamburg, Alabama
- Date Published
- 1862
- Bookseller catalogs
- ALABAMA; AMERICANA;
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
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Woodbridge, Connecticut
About David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Fine
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- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.