2020-01 Putnal
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/18/2020
Rare partly-printed Document Signed being a "CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA REGISTER OF VESSELS." 15-1/2"x17", June 18, 1863, Wilmington, North Carolina, and reads in part: "In pursuance of existing Laws and an act of the Congress of the Confederate States of America entitled 'An act to provide for the Registration of Vessels owned in whole or in part by the Citizens of the Confederate States' S. Grosvenor Porter having taken or subscribed the oath required by Law and having sworn that James A. Seddon of Richmond, Va. is the only owner of the Ship or Vessel called the Merrimac of Savannah, Ga. whereof S.G. Porter is at present Master and is a citizen of the Confederate States and that the said Ship or Vessel was built...in Great Britain in the year 1861, as per Register issued at London Eng. May 10th 1862...." Fine condition. Framed. James Alexander Seddon (1815-1880) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a Representative in the U.S. Congress, as a member of the Democratic Party. He was appointed Confederate States Secretary of War by Jefferson Davis during the American Civil War.
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