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DAVIS, JEFFERSON

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DAVIS, JEFFERSON
(1808 - 1889) President of the Confederacy who led his armies even beyond the surrender at Appomattox. Fine and scarce war-date D.S. ""Jefferson Davis"" as President of the Confederate States of America, 1p. oblong folio, Montgomery, Miss., 1861, a blank privateer's commission authorizing the ship ""...to act as a private armed vessel in the service of the CONFEDERATE STATES, on the high seas, against the United States Of America, their Ships, Vessels, Goods and Effects, and those of their citizens during the pendence of the War..."". Co-signed by Secretary of State ROBERT A. TOOMBS. Lightly toned and browned, light soiling, otherwise very good condition.