L. Warren Nelson authorizing his Attorney to receive any and all money from the State of South Carolina for his slave Laurence/Laurens lost in the public service for the Confederate State, 1864. Laurens '...was retained in the service of the Confederate which sickened and died of Congestive said slave was thousand dollars'.

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