Lot 367
Clark, Charles & Hardee, William. Special Requisition Signed "Chas. Clark Brig. Gen. Comdg" on the front and endorsed "W.J. Hardee, Majr. Genl." on the verso, 1p, 8"x10½". Fine. Clark requests $5,000 to pay his staff and Brigade officers at Hopkinsville, Kentucky for January, 1862. At the lower left of the form is the comment, "No money in the Pay Department." Major V.K. Stevenson, who became Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's Brigade Quartermaster, signs below the note. Clark was twice wounded (Shiloh and Baton Rouge) and once captured; he became wartime governor of Mississippi, where he paved the way for passage of a bill providing for the enlistment of slaves as soldiers. Hardee was one of the finest Corps commanders of the Confederacy.
Estimated Value $700 - 900.
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