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Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad Co

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Stock & Bond - Transportation Start Price:125.00 USD Estimated At:250.00 - 400.00 USD
Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad Co
SOLD
900.00USD+ (225.00) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2018 Dec 09 @ 14:36UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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$1000 Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad Company first mortgage 8% bond, number 147, endorsed by state of Alabama, with 33 coupons, dated September 1, 1869. Principal payable September 1, 1889. Two vignettes, one of train and one of workers. Signed by N.B. Forrest, president, S.H. Fowles, secretary. Green border with Imprint Revenue stamps RNPS on back and RNW2 on left face. Signed by the famed Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877), a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. Served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. He amassed a fortune before the war as a planter, real estate investor, and slave trader. Entered war a private and was promoted to general officer and division commander, by the war's end. Accused of war crimes at the Battle of Fort Pillow for allowing forces, under his command, to conduct a massacre of hundreds of black Union Army and white Southern Unionist prisoners. Union Major General William T. Sherman investigated the allegations and did not charge Forrest with any improprieties. In their postwar writings, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee both expressed their belief that the Confederate high command had failed to fully utilize Forrest’s talents. He later found employment at the Selma-based Marion & Memphis Railroad and eventually became the company president. Under his direction, the company went bankrupt. Ken Prag collection.
State: City: Date: HWAC# 83726