2009-04
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/31/2009
A good war-date manuscript, 3pp folio, Abbeville, South Carolina, Jan. 16, 1864 slave owner's claim against the Confederate government for the loss of his slave boy valued at $3000.00, in part; "Mr. R. P. Buchanan makes oath, that he…furnished a negro boy named Ephriam, about seventeen years old, a field hand…in good health…was sent to Charleston on the 14th day of Sept. 1863 [by] impressments…for thirty days…on the fortifications on Sullivan's Island…under the direction of Capt. Lee. Said boy died on 12th day of Oct. with congestion of the bowels & brain…contracted while employed on the Island. No physicians attended him…". Following are several personal affidavits attesting to Buchanan's fidelity and character repeating the above facts. Unfortunately for poor Ephriam he died while helping defend Charleston during one of her darkest hours of survival during the Civil War as Union land naval forces assaulted the beleaguered city. Fine
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