Autograph affidavit signed by Henry Glenn, S.F. Smith, John B. Watson, O.H.P. Faust(?) and Elijah Webb. Anderson District, South Carolina, 8 January and 8 November 1864. 4 pages, folio. Docketing to verso. With adhered receipt of enslaved labor and death notice. 

An affidavit concerning the neglect of an enslaved man named George. Henry Glenn, George's owner, attests in this affidavit that he "Sent [George] into the public Service to work on the fortifications around Charleston, on the 14th September 1863." George was sent for a 30-day contract; however, he was kept on without Glenn being informed. During this unsanctioned work, George passed away from pneumonia at the Negro hospital in Charleston. Glenn believed George to be worth $3,000 at the current market, so this affidavit was assuredly in part to seek reparations. According to the docketing, Glenn received $1,800. 

While it is unclear where on Charleston Harbor George could have been working, he was no doubt helping fortify the harbor as part of the Confederacy's attempt to keep Charleston and its port safe from Union attacks. 

When looking up Henry Glenn in Anderson District, South Carolina, two different men come up; however, one is recorded as having a enslaved man age 21 in 1860, which would line up more with the mention of George being around 26 in the affidavit. If this is the correct Henry Glenn, he also had two other unnamed enslaved men on his property in 1860. 

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