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New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern Railroad Pass Signed by Beauregard [134486]

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New Orleans, Jackson & Great Northern Railroad Pass Signed by Beauregard   [134486]
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Very rare Civil War pass and autograph. Pass issued in New Orleans in 1870 to Markley. Signed across the face of the pass by company president PGT Beauregard, former Confederate States Army general under whose command the first shots had been fired on Fort Sumter and who during the war helped design the Confederate battle flag! Black print on cardstock. This railroad was originally commissioned by the State of Illinois. Both Stephen Douglas and Abraham Lincoln were among its supporters in the 1851 Illinois Legislature. The line connected Canton, Mississippi, with New Orleans. Completed just prior to the American Civil War, it served strategic interests for the Confederacy. By the end of the Civil War, it was largely in ruins. After a hostile takeover, Beauregard served as president from 1866-1870. He became the first brigadier general in the Confederate States Army in 1861. He then commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, at the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Three months later he won the First Battle of Bull Run (First Manassas) near Manassas, Virginia. Beauregard held several key commands in the Western Theater, including control of armies at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee, and the Siege of Corinth in northern Mississippi, both in 1862. After his military career, Beauregard returned to Louisiana, where he advocated black civil rights including suffrage, and became a promoter of the Louisiana Lottery.

Date: 1870
Country (if not USA):
State: Louisiana
City: New Orleans
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