CIVIL WAR GENERAL SECRETARY TREASURY SENATOR GOVERNOR GOLD STOCK DOCUMENT SIGNED

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CIVIL WAR GENERAL SECRETARY TREASURY SENATOR GOVERNOR GOLD STOCK DOCUMENT SIGNED:
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JOHN ADAMS DIX

\"If anyone attempts to haul down the AmericanFlag, shoot him on the spot!\" John A. Dix, 1861

(1798 -1879)

CIVIL WAR MAJOR GENERAL,

SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT BUCHANAN,

U.S. SENATOR FROM NEW YORK,

MINISTER TO FRANCE

24th GOVERNOR of NEW YORK!

Dix was notable for arresting the pro-Southern Maryland legislature,preventing that divided border state from seceding, and for arranging a systemfor prisoner exchange via the Dix-Hill cartel, concluded in partnership withConfederate Major General Daniel Harvey Hill!

Here\'s a VERYATTRACTIVE DOCUMENT SIGNED BY JOHN A. DIX – A STOCK CERTIFICATE FOR THE “NORTHCLEAR CREEK GOLD and SILVER MINING COMPANY OF COLORADO” CIRCA 1850s. – BOLDLY SIGNED AS PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANYBY DIX!

NOTE:THE CIVIL WAR PERIOD ENGRAVING OFGENERAL DIX PICTURED IN THIS LISTING IS INCLUDED WITH THE AUTOGRAPH – this attractiveengraving was made by G. E. Perine and published by G. P. Putnam, New York.

The document measures11” x 6 1/2\" and is in VERY GOOD CONDITION.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OFGENERAL DIX

JOHN ADAMS DIX was born on July 24,1798, in Boscawen, New Hampshire. He first saw action as an ensign at 14, andserved under father, Lt. Colonel Timothy Dix, in the War of 1812. Young Dixresigned from the service in 1828. He entered business in Cooperstown, New York;and became a Jacksonian Democrat politician.

Dix served as state adjutant general, state school superintendent and amember of the Albany Regency, and was a member of the US Senate (1845-1850).For the next ten years, he was president of 2 railroads, while practicing lawin New York City. In 1859, President James Buchanan appointed Dix postmaster ofNew York City; and, in 1861, Dix was made US Secretary of the Treasury. Afterhe started his term, he issued the famous \"American Flag Dispatch\": \"Ifanyone attempts to haul down the American Flag, shoot him on the spot.\"

Dix received the first commission from President Lincoln as Major Generalof volunteers, dated May 16, 1861. Thus, Dix outranked all other volunteerofficers until the end of the Civil War. He commanded the Department ofAnnapolis and the Department of Pennsylvania in 1861, the Middle Department in1862, the Department of Virginia in 1862 and 1863 and the Department of theEast to the end of the war. Dix made a great contribution to the Union wareffort by suppressing the New York draft riots in 1863.

He resigned in 1865, returning to private life. Soon, however, he wasappointed Minister to France, and was elected governor of the State of New Yorkin 1872. He was not reelected, however, and spent the rest of his years inretirement. Dix died on April 21, 1879, in New York City. Fort Dix, an armyinstallation in southern New Jersey, is named after him.

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