Three Manuscript Receipts for the 24th North Carolina Infantry

Each one page, oblong octavo, all signed by Colonel William J. Clarke, various dates in 1862, acknowledging receipt of ammunition and equipment. Colonel Clarke, an antebellum pro-slavery attorney and a Confederate regimental commander throughout the war, briefly led two companies of black troops during Reconstruction in response to violent Ku Klux Klan activity in North Carolina.

Fold creases, else very fine condition.

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