CSA Colonel Edward Parke Custis Lewis, CDV & Correspondence

Lot 90

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Lot Description

Lot of 3, featuring CDV of Edward Parke Custis Lewis, credited to C.R. Rees & Bros., Richmond, VA.

ANS from Lewis to his wife, Lucy, n.d., at Leetown. Notes that he has been accepted on Colonel Chambliss' staff. I send this by Lt. Turner's servant who wishes his horses to stay at Audley a day or two on their way to Fauquier. Ask Mother to let them run in the yard.

ALS, Washington, January 18, 1867. On Attorney General's Office letterhead. Certifying that E.P.C. Lewis has taken the oath of allegiance and submitted it with his application for a pardon. Just after the war ended and he returned home, his wife Lucy died August 26, 1866, likely as a complication of childbirth, considering their daughter Lucy Ware Lewis was born August 26, 1866.

After Lucy's death, Lewis moved to Hoboken, NJ to practice law. In 1869, he got remarried to Mary Picton Stevens Garnett (a second cousin of Lewis). He was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly in 1878, and became active in national politics, including working for Grover Cleveland's election. Cleveland appointed him Consul General to Portugal in 1885, where he served the next four years when he returned to Hoboken to resume his law practice. He died there two years later.

See also Lots 84 and 89.

Provenance: Descended in the Family of Edward Parke Custis Lewis

Condition

Folds as expected on documents, minor toning. Cdv has upper corners rounded.
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