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[BOOTH, JOHN WILKES]. TOWNSEND, EDWARD DAVIS, Assistant Adjutant General. Autograph letter signed ("E.D. Townsend") to Hon. Thomas T. Eckert, Assistant Secretary of War, War Department, Washington, D.C., 6 August 1866. 1 page, 4to, War Department stationery, original envelope, slight smudge in lower margin.
RECEIPT FOR "JOHN WILKES BOOTH'S SCARF-PIN AND OPERA GLASSES AND JEFFERSON DAVIS'S RIFLE AND CIGARS"
A receipt for a tantalizing group of artifacts "for confidential custody": "I acknowledge to have received from Hon. T.T. Eckert, asst. Secretary of War, for confidential custody, the following articles: Six boxes containing segars and one box containing a rifle, the property of Jefferson Davis. One diamond scarf-pin, and one opera-glass taken from John Wilkes Boothe [sic]..." As Adjutant General, Townsend signed the execution order for the assassination conspirators.
RECEIPT FOR "JOHN WILKES BOOTH'S SCARF-PIN AND OPERA GLASSES AND JEFFERSON DAVIS'S RIFLE AND CIGARS"
A receipt for a tantalizing group of artifacts "for confidential custody": "I acknowledge to have received from Hon. T.T. Eckert, asst. Secretary of War, for confidential custody, the following articles: Six boxes containing segars and one box containing a rifle, the property of Jefferson Davis. One diamond scarf-pin, and one opera-glass taken from John Wilkes Boothe [sic]..." As Adjutant General, Townsend signed the execution order for the assassination conspirators.