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JOSEPH B. JERSHAW A.L.S.

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JOSEPH B. JERSHAW A.L.S.
<b>92. JOSEPH B. KERSHAW</b> (1822 - 1894) Confederate major general who directed Morris Island in the bombing of Fort Sumter, commanded a brigade at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg and Gettysburg, captured at Sayler's Creek. Rare A.L.S. "<i>J. B. Kershaw</i>" on his law office stationery, 1p., 8vo., Camden, S.C., June 15, 1877, in part: "<i>...I have been waiting for the opportunity to write you to thank you for your noble and distinguished support in the recent elections...It will be the aim of my life to justify your good opinion...</i>". Kershaw was elected a judge on the 5th South Carolina Circuit in 1876. Very good, with postal cover.<b>$1,200-1,500</b>