(CIVIL WAR CONFEDERATE) Macbeth Charles Request for muskets

Sale 2344 - Lot 80

Price Realized: $ 562

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

DAYS BEFORE SUMTER (CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Macbeth, Charles. Request for muskets and ammunition to be issued to the Washington Fire Company. Letter Signed as Mayor of Charleston to Governor Francis Wilkinson Pickens. One page, 10 x 7 3/4 inches, approved and docketed on verso on 8 April by James Jones; minor wear. Charleston, SC, April 1861

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The Washington Fire Company was serving as a military guard for the City of Charleston as tensions over the Federal troops at Fort Sumter reached the boiling point. Across the harbor, the Battle of Fort Sumter would launch the Civil War just days later.