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(Confederacy) Wardate LS, 1 1/2pp, nd, 4to, Edgefield District, South Carolina, addressed to the...

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(Confederacy) Wardate LS, 1 1/2pp, nd, 4to, Edgefield District, South Carolina, addressed to the...
(Confederacy) Wardate LS, 1 1/2pp, nd, 4to, Edgefield District, South Carolina, addressed to the Confederate Sec of War, a petition requesting that William J Walker be detailed as an "agriculturalist" instead of serving as a "soldier in the ranks." In part, "...Your petitioner...has been in the army but now has a substitute in the 2d Regt South Carolina State Troops, whose service will soon expire...has on his plantation forty nine slaves...if he is taken away there will not be more produce made on his plantation than a meager support...he had only three sons two of whom have been offered as a sacrifice upon his country's altar and who have died in his country's cause..." 6 men sign at conclusion. Ink erosian to one signature. Couple of small tears and general toning.Boldly penned and easily read. $200-300