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Auction: 313 - Numismatic Collector's Series - Ft. Worth, TX
Lot: 1434

Civil War: Blockade Runners Great combination Confederate States Document Signed by "G.A. Trenholm" as CSA Secretary of the Treasury, and also by register "Ro: Tyler," Comptroller "Lewis Cruger," and with his initials "C.T.J." by Charles T. Jones, 1 page, legal folio, on imprinted Treasury Department form, [Richmond], March 3, 1865. A Naval pay warrant to Paymaster James A. Semple for $300,000 for "Provisions & Clothing," which is paid out in draft #758. With Semple´s receipt signature at bottom, and a great impression at center of the CSA Seal. Fold wear including small hole at intersections, edge wear and soiling, overall VF. George A. Trenholm (1817-76) had become Secretary of the Treasury in July 1864 after the resignation of Christopher Memminger; earlier, he had been one of the most important financial leaders in the Confederacy as head of its overseas bankers, Fraser, Trenholm & Co; as such, he built a fleet of blockade runners that struggled to keep the South supplied during the war. This document was issued at the eleventh hour; Richmond would fall exactly a month later.

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