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[EARLY CONFEDERATE ENLISTMENT]

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[EARLY CONFEDERATE ENLISTMENT]
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[EARLY CONFEDERATE ENLISTMENT] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'>A full week before Fort Sumter fell, this SC enlistment was signed. Partly printed DS, 1p, 4to, Castle Pinckney, SC, Mar 19, 1861. Completed CSA enlistment form for Richard F. Biddle, an iron molder born in Baltimore, age 28, for a period of three years. Signed by Biddle and <b>F. L. Child</b>, as “<i>Capt. CSA</i>,” 3rd SC Artillery Corps, Charleston Harbor. On verso is completed “Declaration of Recruit” signed by Biddle and docket. All manuscript portions boldly penned. Light general toning; partial fold separations with negligible paper loss; o/w VG.</span></p>