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**Albert Creswell Garlington Autograph Letter Signed dated: 18 January 1861, Department of Interior, State of South Carolina. [Charleston]
To the Ordnance Board. Garlington reported that he had been "instructed by His Excellency the Governor to lay before you the enclosed Report of Lieut Col [William] Elliott and to concert with you measures for furnishing such pieces of Ordnance as can be spared for the present at the most necessary points." He also mentioned that "this Department is now in negotiation for the purchase of three steamers for the Coast Police, upon each of which it is proposed to mount at least two Guns." Docketed on verso.
One page, on laid paper with watermark, W7 3/4" L9 5/8"

Provenance: Joseph Rubinfine, Sep 1972
Dr. & Mrs. C.G. Hopper, Jr. Collection

Other Notes: Albert Creswell Garlington (1822-1885), lawyer, politician, and militia officer, Georgia-born Garlington moved to South Carolina in 1844, two years after he graduated from the University of Georgia. He had been active as a brigadier general in the state militia before the Civil War and was appointed Secretary of the Department of Interior by Governor Francis W. Pickens in January 1861.

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