ORIGINAL SIGNATURE AUTOGRAPH OHIO CIVIL WAR POLITICIAN CLEMENT VALLANDIGHAM

Description

Up for sale is an original clipped signature of Ohio Civil War Politician, Clement L. Vallandigham dated April 29, 1867 Dayton, Ohio. Signed in period ink, and still very bold with minimal fading. the clipping measures 3 1/2" x 2 1/4". Vallandigham's signature is getting harder and harder to come by. Nice piece to add to your collection.
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Clement Laird Vallandigham
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July 29, 1820 – June 17, 1871) was an American politician and leader of the
Copperhead
faction of anti-war
Democrats
during the
American Civil War
. He served two terms for
Ohio's 3rd congressional district
in the
United States House of Representatives
. In 1863, he was convicted at an Army court martial of opposing the war, and exiled to the Confederacy. He ran for governor of Ohio in 1863 from exile in Canada, but was defeated. Vallandigham died in 1871 in
Lebanon, Ohio
, after accidentally shooting himself in the abdomen with a pistol, while representing a defendant in a murder case for killing a man in a barroom brawl in
Hamilton
.
Lincoln, who considered Vallandigham a "wily agitator", was wary of making him a martyr to the Copperhead cause and on May 19, 1863, ordered him sent through the enemy lines to the Confederacy.
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When he was within Confederate lines, Vallandigham said: "I am a citizen of Ohio, and of the United States. I am here within your lines by force, and against my will. I therefore surrender myself to you as a prisoner of war."
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