Description: Following the massacres of Freedmen at Colfax, Coushatta, and new Orleans by Confederate veterans, Louisiana Electoral College Commissioner David JMA Jewett fixed the Louisiana electoral votes to win the election for Hayes in exchange for the removal of Federal troops from the South, An original signed Letter from Louisiana Adjutant General Jack Wharton w illus of State Seal, New Orleans, Dec 29, 1876 commissioning Jewett as Brigadier General Louisiana State Guard, to report to General AS) Badger. 1p 8 x 11" ptd/ink. Edge wear age stains, Overall VG.Comes w bio info for Jewett, who despite his service as a Union officer, 19th Massachusetts and as Freedmen Commissioner who testified against the Louisiana White League massacre at Natchchitoches, sold the vote for Hayes who rewarded him w the appointment as PM of New Orleans. Jewett later removed to Ft Stanton, New Mexico where he was accused of embezzling city treasury funds. Also info for Adjutant General Jack Wharton former Confederate Colonel of the 6th Texas Cavalry & postwar Adjutant General State of Louisiana. After the 1876 Election, Federal Troops were removed ending protection of the Right of Freedmen, enabling the creation of the Jim Crow South.Welcome to my Ebay Auctions and Ebay Store. I am a specialist in early American Military & Historical items, especially American Civil War ephemera- letters, military & historic documents including broadsides, commissions, General Orders and other imprints and badges. I have been collecting and selling original American Civil War & US Military memorabilia for 41 years. PLEASE SEE MY EBAY STORE FOR OTHER CIVIL WAR AND EARLY AMERICAN MILITARIA LISTINGS. I am a longtime member of the Company of Military Historians, the New England Antique Arms Association, the Ephemera Society of America & the Civil War Veterans Historical Assn. My customers have included some of the leading names in collecting and selling American History items, as well was as a wide range of novice & advanced collectors in addition to some 30 US federal, state, public and private university & municipal museums and libraries. NOTE: Any repair to a paper item is listed. I use only museum curator approved archival repair tape. All items are unconditionally guaranteed to be authentic and in the condition as described.. I ship only USPS priority mail with insurance
Price: 195 USD
Location: Angier, North Carolina
End Time: 2024-07-31T17:17:07.000Z
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