July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Union document pertaining to the confiscation of Confederate cotton, issued from the Treasury Department, Office of Supervising Special Agent, Charleston, South Carolina, September 4, 1865, issued by J.C. Callicot, Supervising Agent, 3pp. quarto, and reads in part: “... I endorse herewith for your information a copy of the late instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury under which I am now acting for the Collecting of captured cotton. There has hitherto been much confusion and inefficiency in this matter owing to the want of system which these new rules of August 18th are designed to remedy...I have subdivided the State of South Carolina into Districts of about four counties each, to each of which an Assistant Agent has been or will be assigned. The other Agents, who have heretofore been roaming over the state without method are hereby superseded, and it is now designed to prosecute the work systematically and thoroughly. I beg leave respectfully to request that you will aid me in the performance of my official duties (1st) by informing the Commanders of the various Districts and posts, throughout the State of South Carolina, that the work of Collecting and forwarding the captured cotton in this state is now confided solely to the assistant...(2d) by ordering said Commanders to aid such Assistant Agents...and to allow no captured cotton to be moved by any persons except those credited from this office...” Very good condition.
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