2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/28/2022
Confederate officer A(lfred) P. Aldrich's six page letter to South Carolina Governor, datelined Columbia, February 28, 1864. Aldrich was an aide to the governor. In small part, "In obedience to instructions ... we called on Major Bayne of the Ordnance Bureau ... I learned that .. the Departments of Navy and Army were to have and equal interest .. in the return cargoes of vessels engaged in running the blockade. I then told him, that disappointment had been excited from the remarkable fact ... that the State should ship in its steamers of the Bee Line & had actually procured the cargo of the Alice that was prevented from sailing by a claim of the Navy department, which claim was enforced by the order of the War department to detain the ship. b... the same course was repeated in the case of the Fannie. ... He then denied that any discrimination had been made in favor of No. Ca. and Va. against So. Ca. .... " Aldrich's report continued demonstrating that the South Carolina government was not benefiting from the efforts of the South Carolina blockade running companies. Interesting "State Rights" letter.
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