Raynors HCA 2016-06
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WASHINGTON, Littleton Quinton (1825-1902) served for a time with a commission as a quartermaster in the Confederate Army, seeing action at the first battle of Bull Run before resigning. He served as editor of the Richmond Examiner and then, in 1861, entered the Confederate State Department as the personal secretary of the Secretary of State R. M. T. Hunter, a pre-war acquaintance. When Judah Benjamin took over from Hunter the following year, Washington remained in the department and became a vital part of the tiny department. He did see action once more during the war when, in late February and early March 1864, Union General Kilpatrick, together with a cavalry force under Colonel Ulric Dahlgren, attempted to raid Richmond, release the prisoners at Libby Prison, and capture Jefferson Davis. Washington joined a hastily raised "department clerks battalion" and helped defend the city from the failed raid. While at the State Department, rumors connected him to the Confederate spy networks, perhaps knowing fellow Dickinsonians, David Cloud and Thomas Conrad, then active in the service. Booklet, “Constitution of Virginia” 33pp., with separate blue paper cover, 1851. The ownership ink signature is on the front cover “L.Q.Washington,” below of which is a pencil identification, “ (in another hand), “Mr. Washington Asst. Secty of State 1850-1851. The booklet opens with “Virginia Bill of Rights, passed June 12, 1776;” preamble reads in aprt ““…A Declaration of Rights made by the Representatives of the good People of Virginia, assembled in full and free Convention, which Rights do pertain to them and their posterity as the basis and foundation of Government. 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights… namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.…” The booklet continues with amendments from the convention of 185-51. Unique item.
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