1871 Letter: Alexander P. Stewart Confederate General
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Letter: On letterhead of the Saint Louis Mutual Life Insurance Company St. Louis, Mo Aug 21 1871. Gen. A.P Stewart is listed as Secretary of the Company. Letter is sent to Mr. Rodney A. Mercur, Tonawanda, Pennsylvania. Rodney Augustus Mercur was born in Towanda, Pennsylvania in 1851 the son of Ulysses Mercur who was later a Congressman and still later Chief Justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. Rodney had an excellent education, Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard. [This letter was written when he was 20 years old, probably at Harvard] He was a lawyer, member of the Executive Committee of the American Bar Association 1900-1903, Commissioner from Pennsylvania to the Columbian Exposition, United States delegate to the Universal Congress of Lawyers and Jurists, 1904 and was licensed to practice in all Federal courts including the Supreme Court. Why he had written Stewart is unknown. Letter reads " Dear Sir ----- Your note of 9th just received by me in this place. I can not give you exact dates, not having records at hand, but was appointed Major of Artillery by Gov. Harris [Isham Harris (1818-1897) Governor of Tennessee 1857-1862, later US Senator] of Tenn in May or June /61 & as such mustered into Confederate State service in August, after ratification by the people of Tenn of the act of legislature providing for separartion &
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