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Document from Civil War era California man, 1862
Document from Civil War era California man, 1862
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Heading: (California, Civil War)
Author: Sargent, Nathan
Title: 1862 Lincoln fires a Stockton Democratic political hack
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Date Published: 1862
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Partially printed document, completed by hand, signed as U.S. Commissioner of Customs. 1 pp.Ā 



To Andrew Lester, ā€œlate Collector, San Joaquin, Californiaā€. Sending $539 reimbursement for past expenses in collecting Customs revenue in his district.Ā  While the Civil War raged hot and heavy in the East and South, it was business as usual in California for men like Lester, a Gold Rush hotel owner in Stockton who, as a good Democrat, had secured the political plum of running the cityā€™s Customs office until Lincoln removed him. Nathan Sargent (1794-1875) who signed the sacked Lesterā€™s reimbursement, was a well-known Whig and Republican political journalist who served in Washington as Sergeant-at-arms of the House of Representatives, Register of the US Treasury and Lincolnā€™s choice to head the national Customs office, a post he held through the War until Grant appointed him a federal judge.Ā 

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