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Framed Collection of Banknotes and Ephemera from Civil War Era

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Militaria Start Price:2,500.00 USD Estimated At:3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD
Framed Collection of Banknotes and Ephemera from Civil War Era
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New Orleans, Connecticut & Texas. ca.1850-1870, Framed banknotes, photographs, military documents and banknotes, measuring 20x13.5 inches with 11 pieces of ephemera within, all related to J. Edward Clark. Clark (April 1, 1815 – May 4, 1880) who was the eighth Governor of Texas. His term coincided with the beginning of the American Civil War. A native of Georgia, Clark moved with his mother to Montgomery, Alabama after his father’s death in the 1820 or 1830s, attending common schools and studying law. He relocated to Texas in 1842 and served on the staff of General (and later governor) James Pinckney Henderson during the Mexican War. He was a member of the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1845, and served in the First Texas House of Representatives and the Second Texas Senate. He went on to become Secretary of State for Texas from 1853 to 1857, was appointed Texas State Commissioner of Claims in 1858, and served as Lieutenant Governor from 1859 until 1861. When Governor Sam Houston refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederate States after Texas’s secession from the Union, Clark succeeded to the governorship for the remaining eight months of Houston’s term. He ran for reelection, but after losing the governor's race by 124 votes to Francis Lubbock, Clark joined the 14th Texas Infantry as a colonel and was later promoted to brigadier general after being wounded in battle. He fled briefly to Mexico at the end of the American Civil War, but returned home to Marshall, Texas, where he died. His grave in the Marshall City Cemetery is marked with a historical mark. The framed items include: a business card and photograph of J. Edward Clark. Clark; a cover of a letter he sent to President Abraham Lincoln, without the contents; a cover addressed to J. Edward Clark office of U.S. Provisional Marshall in New Orleans Louisiana; a U.S. Senate invitation to witness the Impeachment of President Andrew Johnson on May 6th, 1868. Johnson was the first United States president to be impeached. The trial in the Senate began on March 5, with Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase presiding; a small business card for the Slave Depot by D. Middleton, located at No. 10 Moreau St in New Orleans, The city of New Orleans was the largest slave market in the United States, ultimately serving as the site for the purchase and sale of more than 135,000 people. In 1808, Congress exercised its constitutional prerogative to end the legal importation of enslaved people from outside the United States. But it did not end domestic slave trading, effectively creating a federally protected internal market for human beings; a pass from the Chief Quartermasters Office in New Orleans, dated 1863 (when under Northern control), granting Provisional Marshal J. Edward Clark, "free passage from New Orleans to any port within the lines and back until further orders"; a card/receipt from the Bedford Hotel - Covent Garden for £9.10.7 signed at the top by J. E. Clark; and, in addition to all the J. Edward Clark ephemera, there 3 pieces of obsolete currency, a Merchant & Planters Bank, $1, 1859 obsolete note, a Confederate States of America, State of Alabama, 1863, 25 Cents, P-S211a scrip note; and, a Fractional Currency - Postage Currency, 1863, 5 Cents, P-101 note. Pieces in frame range from VG to XF-AU condition. Rare Civil War military related group from the family papers of J. Edward Clark.