Confederate travel pass, 1864 July 27

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Confederate travel pass, 1864 July 27

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Civilian travel pass, 27 July 1864, a printed form issued to Sarah Allen Huckins by George W. Curtis, clerk of court for Chester District, S.C., is a rare surviving example of an internal passport issued to a South Carolina citizen. Its existence raises speculations about security procedures on the home front under the Confederacy; the form describes her height, both her eyes and hair as brown, and her complexion as dark. Sarah Huckins' "passport" certified her as a good and loyal citizen of Chester District, S.C., and granted her an unmolested passage to Greenville, S.C.; her need for a passport in 1864 Chester County may have arisen from a northern accent, a dark complexion, or an unusual surname. Huckins presumably traveled or "refugeed" to the upstate as did many other Charlestonians during the Civil War; the Official reason given on the form for Huckins' trip to Greenville was "business," although verso Huckins' intended purpose was to visit friends.

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Confederate States of America

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During the Civil War, the Confederate States of America issued their own currency notes. These circulated like cash, but were technically bills of credit. At the beginning of the war, they circulated widely, but by the end of the war they had lost nearly all their value. Many of the bills remained in private hands after the war and became collectible as memorabilia. Other bills, which the Union Army had confiscated, were in the hands of the United States War Department; it transferred them to th...

Huckins family.

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Huckins, Sarah Allen, 1838-

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Resident, in 1860, of Ward 4 in Charleston, S.C.; although actually born in Providence, Rhode Island, Huckins reported her birthplace as Maryland in the 1860 U.S. Census; in 1867, Huckins married Waters Smith Davis, a merchant and railroad executive of Galveston, Tx. Daughter of the Rev. James L. Huckins (1807-1863), the pastor of Wentworth Street Baptist Church (Charleston, S.C.), and his wife Rhoda Barton (1808-1875), a Mayflower descendant; James Huckins was a native ...