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(CONFEDERATE CIVIL WAR GENERALS): Unusual D.S. 1p. 8" x 17 1/2" [n.p., n.d., c. 1858], a subscrip...

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(CONFEDERATE CIVIL WAR GENERALS): Unusual D.S. 1p. 8  x 17 1/2  [n.p., n.d., c. 1858], a subscrip...
(CONFEDERATE CIVIL WAR GENERALS): Unusual D.S. 1p. 8" x 17 1/2" [n.p., n.d., c. 1858], a subscription list for the printing of "The Speech of Hon Thomas S. Bocock of Va on the Affairs in Kansas will be printed at Globe Office at $0.50 per hundred copies". Beneath the title 65 individuals have signed their names ordering copies, including future Confederate generals WILLIAM BARKSDALE, ALBERT JENKINS, WILLIAM "EXTRA BILLY" SMITH, ALFRED SCALES, and MILLEGE BONHAM. Other signatories include THOMAS S. BOCOCK, the author of the Kansas speech and later speaker of the Confederate House of Representatives, Confederate Virginia Governor JONATHAN LETCHER, JOHN B. CLARK (Sr.) (1802-1885), Confederate Lt. Colonel WILLIAM T. AVERY (1819-1880), THOMAS RUFFIN (1820-1863) Confederate cavalryman, killed at Auburn, Va., L.Q.C. LAMAR (1825-1893) Confederate officer and diplomat, later Supreme Court Justice, CLEMENT VALLANDIGHAM (1820-1871) (pencil signature), ISAAC INGALS STEVENS Union General killed at Chantilly, WILLIAM PORCER MILES (1822-1899), and many others. Sixteen of the signatories in all served in the Confederate Congress. The piece consists of two sheets pasted together and bears a few defects to margins, light soiling, usual folds, otherwise very good condition. A fine grouping of signatures. $1,500-2,000