An 1862 Manuscript Certificate of Exemption from Military Duty issued under the “Twenty Negro Law” - Granted to a White Plantation Owner in Alabama

by BARTLETT, L.H.

$1,500 · Offered by Between the Covers

Marengo County, Alabama: 1862. Unbound. Manuscript Document Signed by L.H. Bartlett, Enrolling Officer, Marengo Co., Ala., December 20, 1862. Measuring 4” x 8½”. Light old folds, one nick at bottom edge, very good or better. A neatly written and fully legible document written out by Bartlett, granting J.W. Isler, who..... More

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