July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
War-date Manuscript Document Signed, "P Flanders, Supervising Special Agent", one page with verso docketing, 8" x 20-1/4", New Orleans, Louisiana, July 5, 1864. Duplicate, a complete listing of numerous silver table items valued at $541 that were "Captured by the forces of the United States and claimed to be the property of Brig Genl Fusilier C.S.A." This haul was to be disposed of on behalf of the U.S. Treasury and is signed by the Department's "Supervising Special Agent". Fine condition. From Richard Taylors book, "Destruction and Reconstruction" we get insight to Fusilier. Captain Leclere Fusilier served on Taylor's staff, lived In the pariah of St. Mary's, twenty miles below New Iberia, was the possessor of great estates and of a hospitable, generous nature. His sons were in the army, and sixty years had not diminished his energy or his enthusiasm. From the book, page 109, reads: "He desired to serve on my staff as volunteer aide, promising to join me whenever fighting was to be done; and he kept his promise. In subsequent actions on the Teche and Red River, the first gun seemed the signal for the appearance of Captain Fusilier, who, on his white pony, could be seen where the fight was the thickest, leading on or encouraging his neighbors...Fusilier was twice captured, and on the first occasion was sent to Fortress Monroe, where he, with fifty other prisoners from my command, was embarked on the transport Maple Leaf for Fort Delaware. Reaching the capes of Chesapeake at nightfall, the prisoners suddenly attacked and overpowered the guard, ran the transport near to the beach in Princess Anne County, Virginia, landed, and made their way to Richmond, whence they rejoined me in Louisiana. Again taken, Fusilier escaped, while descending the Teche on a steamer, by springing from the deck to seize the overhanging branch of a live oak. The guard fired on him, but darkness and the rapid movement of the steamer were in his favor, and he got off unhurt...".
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