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Andes Silver Mining Co., 1876 I/U Stock Certificate Signed by Civil War General George S. Dodge.

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Andes Silver Mining Co., 1876 I/U Stock Certificate Signed by Civil War General George S. Dodge.
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Virginia Mining District, Storey County, Nevada. 10 Shares, I/U stock certificate, Ornate title with logo at left, VF with small 2mm tear top left margin as well as small pin holes and 2 small holes from being attached to document. Signed by Geo. S. Dodge as president. Dodge received a historic silver ingot. ÓThe Ingot Recipient, George Sullivan Dodge was a decorated Civil War veteran, who was brought to the West Coast about 1871 to manage the monstrous new silver company in Eureka, the Eureka Consolidated. The mine was so rich that it rivaled the best of the Comstock, ultimately producing over $20 million from 1873 to 1906 alone. DodgeÕs office was in San Francisco, right in the center of the Montgomery Street business section (Bank of California, etc.) where most of the financial ends of the Comstock mining barons took place. Dodge appears to have been appointed the first president of the Company, with the attendant job of getting the mine into profitable and large scale production. He was in charge of hiring the best mining men and putting together a mining crew to rival the best on the Comstock. George Sullivan Dodge (August 3, 1838 - August 24, 1881) was a Union Army officer during the American Civil War, a United States consul to Bremen, Germany and a merchant. Dodge, the son of William P. and Nancy B. Dodge (1806-1853), was born on August 4, 1838, in Irasburg, Orleans County, Vermont, Dodge became a prominent merchant. With the outbreak of hostilities in the American Civil War, Dodge entered a volunteer regiment for the Union Army and was appointed colonel in the army's Quartermaster Department. During the war's later years, he served as Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the James under Major General Benjamin F. Butler and later under Major General Edward O.C. Ord. On January 26, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln nominated Dodge for appointment to the grade of brevet brigadier general to rank from January 15, 1865 for his last-minute resupply of beleaguered Union forces at the Second Battle of Fort Fisher (January 13Ð15, 1865) and the United States Senate confirmed the appointment on February 14, 1865. He later participated in the Battle of Wilmington (February 11Ð22, 1865). After the war, Dodge served as the United States Consul in Bremen, Germany (1866-1869)