2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
An interesting, 3pp. folio, legal document from Pulaski County, IL, Feb. 22, 1866 concerning settling a war claim brought by Richard H. Warner against the US government. In part, demands are made for: "...20,000 brick used by the 7th, 18th, & 10th Regiment Illinois Vol. while encamped at Mound City... $100.00... [and] to rent of house used for hospital for 10th Reg. Ill. Vol from Jany. 1st 1862 until 12th Feby 1862...$34.50... know that the item for rent charged in the above warrant... is a reasonable charge...[and] personally appeared before the...acting Justice of the Peace...Timothy Booth contractor on Public Works and Palatine Steele [and] master brick layer...that the...lot of brick...were used as charged...". A fascinating document that declared that the government owed $134.50 (plus interest!) for a bill that was nearly four years old. No doubt the Feds were addressing Civil War claims of this nature for at least a decade following combat! VG
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