treasury Department civil War Interesting letter press book containing 130 letters issued from the Treasury Department during the crucial years 1859 to 1865 These copies were made by pressing thin papers against the original letters so that copies could be made The letters signed variously by Howell Cobb John DIX, Salmon P. Chase and others have generally routine content but with many interesting references to counterfeiting of coinage theft of government funds relief of Indians seizure of Confederate shipping real property and banknote paper and the sale of Mrs James Polk's cotton under special permit. Bound covers and spine lacking