Letter : Columbia, S.C., to Charles Devens, Washington, D.C., 1877 Apr. 8.

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Letter : Columbia, S.C., to Charles Devens, Washington, D.C., 1877 Apr. 8.

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Autograph letter signed. Letter of introduction for Colonel William Brown of Kentucky.

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Devens, Charles, 1820-1891

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Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Devens graduated from Boston Latin School and eventually Harvard College in 1838, and from the Harvard Law School in 1840. He was admitted to the bar in Franklin County, Massachusetts, where he practiced law from 1841 to 1849. In 1848, he was a Whig member of the Massachusetts Senate. From 1849 to 1853, Devens was United States Marshal for Massachusetts, in which capacity he was called upon in 1851 to remand the fugitive slave, Thomas Sims, to slavery. This...

Chamberlain, Daniel Henry, 1835-1907

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Attorney and politician. A native of Massachusetts, during the Civil War he was a lieutenant of the 5th Massachusetts Regiment (an African American unit) and from 1866 to about 1876 lived in South Carolina, where he was elected governor in 1874. Chamberlain lost his office in 1876 and left South Carolina to practice law in New York. From the description of Letter, 1885 Feb. 9. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 37522002 Attorney and politician; nati...