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SOLDIERS CONFEDERATE TREASON INDICTMENT, TENN. 1865.

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SOLDIERS CONFEDERATE TREASON INDICTMENT, TENN. 1865.
SOLDIERS CONFEDERATE TREASON INDICTMENT, TENN. 1865. Lot of 14, including the original indictment and 13 summonses. A fascinating archive from Sevier County, Tennessee, indicting one Elijah Brown for treason against the United States. The indictment charges Brown with furnishing ten pounds of lead, ten pounds of gunpowder, ten head each of horses, mules, hogs, one hundred pounds of bacon and beef, fifty bushels of wheat and corn, fifty guns, and one thousand pounds of hay, along with fifty men as soldiers. Sevier county was a Union stronghold during the war, and presumably Mr. Pierce was a southern sympathizer. All but two summonses seek Brown; two seek three other conspirators. Brown was repeatedly sought over a period of years -- between December 1865 and September 1868, the courts failed to locate him. Most of the summonses are docketed by the Sherrif of Sevier County indicating a search was made to no avail. Typical is that of Lem Duggan who wrote "The defendant don't reside in my county." Generally EXC with usual folds.PLEASE NOTE: THIS LOT WILL BE SOLD ON EBAY LIVE AUCTIONS BETWEEN 4:00-5:00pm EASTERN DAYLIGHT TIME ON MAY 10, 2002. REGISTER NOW TO BID LIVE ONLINE THE DAY OF THE SALE! (EST 300-400) LARGE FORMAT CIVIL WAR ALBUMEN PHOTOGRAPHS
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