2-949-872 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

L. Warren Nelson authorizing his Attorney to receive any and all money from the State of South Carolina for his slave Laurence/Laurens lost in the public service for the Confederate State, 1864. Laurens '...was retained in the service of the Confederate States...during which time...he sickened and died of Congestive fever...the said slave was worth...two thousand dollars'.