2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
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Pre-Printed pass, 5” x 3”, issued by “C.S. Provost Marshal’s Office” Richmond, March 15, 1865 . The pass is issued for W(illia)m Jones, (to be) unmolested in the city for 15 days. Jones is described as 38, 5’8”, Dark hair and Blue eyes. The pass is issued and signed by Major Isaac H. Carrington (mis-printed as J.H. Carrington) On the reverse, “April 30th ‘65, Renewed for 30 days by order of Maj Carrington”. Isaac H. Carrington (1827–1887) served in various staff and administrative positions in the Confederate army before, in 1863, the Confederate Congress appointed him a commissioner of prisoners in Richmond. The next year the secretary of war named him Richmond’s provost marshal with responsibility for issuing passports to all persons leaving the city. Just prior to the Union occupation of Richmond in 1865, Carrington set fire to military stores in the city, but despite taking precautions, the fire spread and destroyed much of the capital.
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