SIGNED CHECK – REAR ADMIRAL ENOCH G. PARROTT – CAPTURED FIRST CONFEDERATE PRIVATEER, COMMANDED USS CANONICUS AT FORT FISHER – DATED 1874, PORTSMOUTH

SIGNED CHECK – REAR ADMIRAL ENOCH G. PARROTT – CAPTURED FIRST CONFEDERATE PRIVATEER, COMMANDED USS CANONICUS AT FORT FISHER – DATED 1874, PORTSMOUTH

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This is an original bank check drawn on the Rockingham National Bank of Portsmouth, N.H., and signed in ink by Enoch G. Parrott, "E. G. Parrott." The printed heading "The First National Bank" has been struck through and "Rockingham" written in. The check is dated at Portsmouth, September 23, 1874. It is made payable to Lyman D. Spalding or bearer in the amount of $2,582, written out in full as "Two thousand five hundred eighty two Dollars." It bears a 2-cent orange and black U.S. Internal Revenue stamp with a portrait of Washington at left. The check is cancelled with three punch holes, one of them through the stamp.

Parrott was a native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and had a long and distinguished career in the U.S. Navy. He commanded the brig USS Perry on June 3, 1861, when he captured the Confederate privateer Savannah, the first Confederate privateer taken in the war. The case of the Savannah's crew became a national issue when the Lincoln administration tried them for piracy. From April 1864 to February 1865, Parrott commanded the ironclad monitor USS Canonicus. During the attacks on Fort Fisher, North Carolina, the Canonicus was struck 36 times without the loss of a man. He rose to the rank of rear admiral, and this check dates from the end of his career, when he was back home in Portsmouth.

CONDITION

Light, even toning. There is a small closed tear or crease at the upper right near the date, visible on the reverse, along with three cancellation punch holes, as issued. The signature is dark, clear, and fully legible. The stamp is bright, with the punch hole through it.

Check measures approximately 6 3/4" x 2 1/4".

A nice signature of a Civil War naval officer with two notable wartime commands.  [cm][ph:L]

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