Lot 178
Jefferson Davis Autograph Letter Signed. As president of the Carolina Life Insurance Company, one page, 9 x 6", on office stationery, Memphis, Tenn., May 15, 1872. To an unidentified correspondent: "'I regret my inability to comply with your request for autographs of Genl. A. Sidney Johnston and others. With kind remembrance to your Father…." Small printed description of the letter is stapled at lower left; small repair in upper left corner and on verso of lower left corner; some soiling.
Davis was imprisoned for two years after the Civil War ended, then was released on $100,000 bail. He went to Canada and lived in Quebec until 1868, also traveling to Cuba and Europe in search of work. On Christmas Day of 1868, President Andrew Johnson issued a presidential "pardon and amnesty" for the offense of treason to "every person who directly or indirectly participated in the late insurrection or rebellion" and the case against Davis was dismissed in February 1869. He became president of the company in 1869. Before his death he wrote two books about the Confederacy: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) and A Short History of the Confederate States of America (1889). Estimate Value $600 - 800
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