Nov 09, 2004 - Sale 2021

Sale 2021 - Lot 56

Price Realized: $ 172
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(CIVIL WAR.) CHASE, SALMON P. Letter Signed, as Secretary of the Treasury, to John N. Hall, denying his request to conduct business across blockaded ports. 1 page, single small 4to sheet; horizontal fold, inlaid. Washington, 12 June 1862

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"I have received your letter of the 9th inst. requesting permission to resume your business of transportation between different points in Chesapeake Bay, now in possession of the U.S. forces. No permission for trade at any blockaded ports can be given by this Department, so long as the blockade shall be maintained, except for naval or military purposes, and upon the request of the Navy or War Department."