3" X 5" "Piece of the Confederate Capitol Flag - Captured April 3, 1865 Richmond, Va." And a "Confederate Bill of the C.S.A. P... (Total: 2 Items)

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3" X 5" "Piece of the Confederate Capitol Flag - Captured April 3, 1865 Richmond, Va." And a "Confederate Bill of the C.S.A. Public Funds Surrendered April 9, 1865 By Gen. Robert E. Lee C. S. A. Appomattox Court House, Va." The ink script note is signed "A. B. Lawrence, U.S. Army James,(sic) Chief Quartermaster." Col. A. B. Lawrence served as Grant's chief quartermaster, was present at the surrender, and was personally charged with furnishing rations to the starving Army of Northern Virginia. Included with this set is a copy of a New York Times newspaper article, dated December 18, 1881, which details a visit by a Times reporter to Lawrence's "veritable museum of mementoes and relics of the war" in Warsaw, N. Y. The article includes the detailed description, by Lawrence of how he obtained these exact artifacts at the surrender. Historically significant and impeccably provenanced.