CIVIL WAR NEW YORK WARREN COUNTY REUBEN FENTON SGD VOLUNTEER CERTIFICATE for Sale

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CIVIL WAR NEW YORK WARREN COUNTY REUBEN FENTON SGD VOLUNTEER CERTIFICATE For Sale

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CIVIL WAR NEW YORK WARREN COUNTY REUBEN FENTON SGD VOLUNTEER CERTIFICATE:
$135.00

Governor Reuben Eaton Fenton was known as \"The Soldiers Friend\" for his efforts to aid the volunteers and their families. Fenton was one of the foundersof the Republican Party and a staunch ally of President Lincolnin their effortsto save the Union. An original original Certificates issued at Albany, New York, June 15, 1865 for 23,600 dollars for \"Volunteers & Substitutes\" raised for muster into theService of the United States, for payment to the Town Queensbury, Warren County under the Draft Call of December 1864. 1p 9 x 5\", ptd ink Certificate, sgd by NY Civil War Governor Reuben Fenton. Age stains, mall edge wear, 2 small acid free archival repair on reverse, Overall VG.Cmes w bio info.Historic Queensbury encompassed much of the Revolutionary War battlefieldof Lake Georgeand justbefore the Civil War was home to Solomon Northrup, the kidnapped Warren County Freedman who described his life as a Louisiana plantation slave in his bestsellingmemoir \"Twelve Years a Slave\". In 1864 New York volunteers from Warren County, remembering his account, laid waste to the areasof Rapides Parish, Louisiana where he had been enslaved but preserved his cabin which is now part of a museum there.