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Auction: 315 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 519

Civil War: David Hunter Union general (1802-86); put in charge of the Southern Department, he proclaimed the slaves in Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina emancipated, creating a furor in Washington; defeated at Lynchburg by Jubal Early in 1864, after which he retired from the service. Choice Seminole War-era Autograph Letter Signed "David Hunter / Paymaster," 1 page, 4to, Fort Smith, Arkansas, October 19, 1842. He writes Paymaster General Nathan Towson, "I have the honor to enclose you my Monthly Statement for Sep. ´42: also a letter, with its enclosure, for the Second Auditor of the Treasury [none present]. I have made the payment here, and shall leave for Gibson [Arkansas] tomorrow, if the Quartermaster has the transportation..." Partial separation at fold, small pin hole, otherwise VG. Both Hunter and the Confederate general who would end his career, Jubal Early, served in the Second Seminole War, another example of Civil War opponents who had been comrades-in-arms.

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