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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Pair of letters on enslaved laborers in Confederate Texas being detailed for railroad labor. Autograph Letters Signed, both of them docketed on verso by Confederate Major General John George Walker. Texas, November 1864
Captain H. McKay. Autograph Letter Signed as commander of Negro labor to Captain A.H. Moy. One page, 10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches; minimal wear. "I am just advised, by the agent in charge of Negro dep't in Houston, of the arrest and commitment of a Negro servant, property of Mr. Israel Washburn, Montgomery County, by one Michael Conway, on detail in the employment of the N. & Y.R. Road. Said agent, whose duty it was to receive and return said Negro to service, demanded this Negro of Conway before commitment, but he refused to deliver said Negro. The Negro protests that he was not a runaway. . . . Correct these abuses and prevent their recurrence." With docketing on verso including a note signed by Confederate Major General John George Walker, ordering "the arrest and confinement by the Provost Marshal of the man Conway, have his detail revoked and send him under guard to his regiment." Headquarters, Negro Labor, Anderson, TX, 8 November 1864.
C. McCoy. Autograph Letter Signed to George B. Nichols. One page, 7 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches; minor wear. "I received an order from Capt. McKay to deliver seventy Negroes to you, but soon after his order come, I got another order from Maj. Thomas to send them to Camp Greer, which I did." Enrolling Office, Richmond, Fort Bend County, TX, 1 November 1864. With extensive docketing on verso, including two notes signed by Confederate Major General John George Walker, ordering Thomas to "turn over without delay the Negroes mentioned . . . to the agent of the H. & G.R.R."
