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[Manuscript Document Involving a Writ of Habeas Corpus in Late-Confederate Texas].
March 14, 1865. [2]pp. on a folio sheet. Old folds, some abrading in the margins, minor edge wear. Very good. Item #5062
A Confederate Texas legal document in which Judge A.D. McGinnis of the "2nd Judicial District" orders those parties holding William L. Carter to report to court for a hearing on a matter "on a writ of habeas corpus." A month before the end of the Civil War, Carter alleges that he was "illegally restrained in his liberty" by Lt. Robert Burton of "Alexander Cowan's Company of the Reserve Corps of Caldwell County, of the Confederate States of America." Judge McGinnis states that Carter is now apparently being held by another officer of Cowan's Company, and orders that said officer "is hereby commanded to produce the person of said Carter before the district court of said county...and there to show cause why he is held in custody and under restraint." Confederate habeas corpus documents are quite uncommon in the market.
Price: $550