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[RECONSTRUCTION FLORIDA]

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[RECONSTRUCTION FLORIDA]
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>[RECONSTRUCTION FLORIDA] </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>“Hardly 24 Hours Pass But Someone Is Shot”</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt; font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'><BR><BR>Florida carpetbagger Col. S. C. Barker writes to his friend Henry Wing in Maine. ALS, 2pp, legal folio, Tallahassee, Nov 14, 1868. Good content. In part, “...<i>this will convince you that we still survive and are numbered among the Carpet baggers from Maine. We fought & whipped them, now we propose to stop & help govern them a spell if they don’t wipe us out some dark night. A Yank carries his life in his hand in these parts at the present time. We have just now a job on hand of impeachment for our Governor. He was about to sell us out to the Rebs besides trying to appropriate too much of the State funds for his own use...Your humble servant is Ajt. General Pro Tem, but really Col. Commanding the State troops at the Penitentiary. We have had some pretty serious times for civil times...Hardly 24 hours pass but someone is shot.</i>..” Light soiling and toning on verso; occasional foxing; o/w VG.</span></p>