July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Confederate imprint “The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America, Passed at the First Session of the Second Congress; 1864. Carefully collated with the Originals at Richmond. Edited by James M. Matthews, Attorney at Law, and Law Clerk in the Department of Justice...Richmond: R.M. Smith, Printer to Congress. 1864”. Includes the Thanks of Congress to General Nathan Bedford Forrest, General Lee’s attempted resignation, as well as the public laws for the first session covering a variety of issues including the Write of Habeas Corpus, and congratulatory resolutions to Major General ‘Stonewall’ Jackson and Commander Raphael Semmes. Ex. Libris, else VG.
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