Papers, ca. 1865.

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Papers, ca. 1865.

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Petition to Gideon Welles, secretary of the navy, requesting reimbursement for his steamboat the Louisville. Combs had been detained by Rbel forces at natchez and then when liberated by Union troops his boat was considered a war prize. Papers also include a draft of a letter to President Andrew Johnson asking him to set aside Welles' ruling against Combs.

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The Filson Historical Society

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The Filson Historical Society

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Combs, Joseph

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Combs was a boatman on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. From the description of Papers, ca. 1865. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49200262 Lawyer and businessman of Freehold, N.J.; corporator of Monmouth County Mutual Fire Insurance Company. From the description of Account book, 1841 Apr. 3-1854 Aug. 5. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70925853 ...

Johnson, Andrew, 1808-1875

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Andrew Johnson (b. December 29, 1808, Raleigh, North Carolina-d. July 31, 1875, Carter's Station, Tennessee) became the seventeenth president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1808. He began his political career in Greenville, Tennessee in 1828. At the time of this letter he was the Democratic senator from Tennessee. Emerson Etheridge was born in Carrituck County, North Carolina. As a representative of Tennes...

Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878

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A native of Glastonbury, Conn., Gideon Welles began his career as a lawyer but took up journalism as a profession, founding the Hartford Times, which he also edited, in 1826. Active in the Democratic Party in Connecticut, he served in the Connecticut state legislature and in several state offices. He later shifted his allegiance to the Republican Party due to his strong anti-slavery views and founded the Hartford Evening Press, a zealously Republican newspaper. President Abraham Lincoln appointe...

Louisville (Steamboat)

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