Raynors HCA 2018-03
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FAULKNER, Charles James (1806-1884) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia and West Virginia. He was appointed by President James Buchanan Minister to France in 1860, serving until he was arrested in August 1861 on charges of negotiating sales of arms for the Confederacy while in Paris, France. He was imprisoned at Fort Warren in Boston. Faulkner was released in December after negotiating his own exchange for Alfred Ely, a New York congressman who was captured at the First Battle of Bull Run. During the American Civil War, Faulkner enlisted in the Confederate Army and was a lieutenant colonel and assistant adjutant general on the staff of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. Check Signed “Chas J. Faulkner” March 1, 1868, drawn on the National Bank of Martinsburg, West Virginia. Fine condition.
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