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Auction: 326 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1308

Civil War, Post-Civil War, Alabama. Collection of documents largely from Alabama, ca. 1862-1865 and related to James H. Beard of Cahaba (Cahawba). Includes CSA Depository Receipt, State of Alabama Sheriff Summons, CSA vouchers, commerical invoices, Clerk documents; 1865 Union Army document, Selma, authorizing Jas. H. Beard to take charge and make arrangements for "all the swine and cattle formerly belonging to the so called confederate government", Slave Document (Beard's sale of "a certain negro boy names Ned"), Bill of Lading from the Steamer Virginia and Other Related Items (a few later and not southern). James H. Beard was a merchant in Cahawba, Alabama during the Civil War dealing in many goods, including liquors (an 1862 clerk's notice inlcuded shows him to be a licenced "retail spiritous and venous liquors" dealer) and by 1865 also a Marshal. With the demise of the CSA, he was appointed by the Union forces as a commercial agent. Documents are well-preserved, some with staining, but intact. VG-Fine. Interesting collection and worth close inspection and further resarch. [56]

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