Nov 29, 2001 - Sale 1916

Sale 1916 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 1,150
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CIVIL WAR--CONFEDERATE.) Small group of partly-printed and manuscript material relating to the Confederate Navy. In all, 5 items. Format and condition vary. should be seen.<><\t>Vp, vd

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Includes: Two Autograph Letters Signed from Colonel Alfred Rhett, artillery commander at Fort Sumter, the first to Captain Nance reporting enemy naval movements ("The enemy have opened with a 200 pdr . . . they have hammered the Fort a good deal . . . The Ironsider and two Monitors are backing in"), the second to Colonel Butler at Fort Moultrie, informing him that the Fannie is going to sea Partly-printed pay order from the Treasury Department to the Confederate Navy for $730,000, signed by various officials including the Secretary of the Treasury and Pay Master of the Navy Partly-printed document on Navy Department letterhead, requesting $81,590 from the Treasury department for pay, repairs and other matters Another request for $2960 for repairs to the ships Badkin and the North Carolina.<