DAVIS, JEFFERSON, President, C.S.A. Document signed ("JeffersDavis") as President, countersigned by G.A. Trenholm, Secretary of the Treasury, and Robert Tyler Register, n.p. [Richmond, Va.], 23 February 1865. One page, folio, on fine blue paper with "Britannia" watermark, a printed document accomplished in manuscript, with circular embossed seal of the Confederate Treasury. THE CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT'S LAST PAY VOUCHER An evocative document, constituting the Confederate President's official receipt for the last installment of his salary. The document is boldly headed "Treasury Department#/#To the Treasurer of the Confederate States....pay to His Excellency, Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States...Six thousand, two hundred & fifty dollars." We have confirmed, courtesy of the editors of the Jefferson Davis Papers at Rice University, that Davis is not known to have received his salary in March. Not surprising, since this would have been only days before the Confederate defensive perimeter was breached and Richmond evacuated, on 3 April. Later that month Davis and the remnants of the Confederate cabinet fled to Charlotte, N.C., and by 10 May, Davis had been captured near Irwinsville, Georgia. No pay vouchers signed by the President for either March or April exist. Provenance : Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Foundation (sale, Sotheby's, 20 June 1979, lot 658, illustrated).
DAVIS, JEFFERSON, President, C.S.A. Document signed ("JeffersDavis") as President, countersigned by G.A. Trenholm, Secretary of the Treasury, and Robert Tyler Register, n.p. [Richmond, Va.], 23 February 1865. One page, folio, on fine blue paper with "Britannia" watermark, a printed document accomplished in manuscript, with circular embossed seal of the Confederate Treasury. THE CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT'S LAST PAY VOUCHER An evocative document, constituting the Confederate President's official receipt for the last installment of his salary. The document is boldly headed "Treasury Department#/#To the Treasurer of the Confederate States....pay to His Excellency, Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States...Six thousand, two hundred & fifty dollars." We have confirmed, courtesy of the editors of the Jefferson Davis Papers at Rice University, that Davis is not known to have received his salary in March. Not surprising, since this would have been only days before the Confederate defensive perimeter was breached and Richmond evacuated, on 3 April. Later that month Davis and the remnants of the Confederate cabinet fled to Charlotte, N.C., and by 10 May, Davis had been captured near Irwinsville, Georgia. No pay vouchers signed by the President for either March or April exist. Provenance : Elsie O. and Philip D. Sang Foundation (sale, Sotheby's, 20 June 1979, lot 658, illustrated).
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