2005-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2005
Autograph Document Signed, " James R. Page", 1p. folio, November 23, 1864, Arkansas, addressed to "D.H. Lindsay, Commander of the Post at Washington, Arks." and reads in part: "...Whereas it appears to me by the application of Mr. Lewis duly made as required by law for the states unit of Habeas Corpus to be granted in his behalf that he is by you illegally restrained in his liberty under a charge of his supposed being liable to Military duty as a conscript...These are therefore to command you in the name of the state of Arkansas to bring the body of the siad Maclin Lewis together with the authority of his arrest and detention before me at my office in the town of Washington, Hempstead County..." FIne.
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