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Andrew Johnson Document Signed "Approved/ Andrew Johnson/ Mil - Governor". One page, partly printed, 8" x 10", April 5, ...
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Description
Andrew Johnson Document Signed "Approved/ Andrew Johnson/ Mil - Governor". One page, partly printed, 8" x 10", April 5, 1863, Nashville. In part: "We, Thomas B. Florida of Wilson County State of Tennessee principal and Paulding [?] Anderson of Wilson County, State of Tennessee, surety, are held and firmly bound unto the United States of America in the penal sum of Three Thousand Dollars. . . . The condition of this obligation is such that whereas, the above bounden Thomas B. Florida has this day given his Parole of Honor without any mental reservation or evasion, that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and the laws made in pursuance thereof; that he will not take up arms against the United Stated, or give aid or comfort, or furnish information directly or indirectly, to any person or persons belonging to any of the so-styled Confederate States." Thomas B. Florida was a second lieutenant in Tennessee's 18th Infantry when captured by the Union.Andrew Johnson was the only southern senator not to resign his position when the state he represented (Tennessee) seceded from the Union. As a result, he was appointed by President Lincoln to be the military governor of Union-occupied Tennessee. He was elected vice president during Lincoln's second term as president. When Lincoln was assassinated in April 1865, Johnson became the seventeenth president. This document, on blue paper, has clear and crisp printing and handwriting. Two small tape remnants are conspicuous along the right margin; else fine. Attractively framed and matted with an image of Johnson to an overall size of 19.5" x 16.25".
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2009 March Grand Format Rare Manuscripts Auction #6019 (go to Auction Home page)
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March, 2009
6th-7th
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