CIVIL War Robert Toombs Clipped Signature Confederate General -us Senator

  

Up for sale is an authentic, original cut signature of Robert A. The paper snippet features Toombs' bold, handwritten ink signature reading: R.

" with "washington written directly below it. The reverse side features a modern pencil notation reading "TOOMBS, ROBERT". Robert Toombs was a titan of mid-19th-century politics.

Congressman and Senator, he later became one of the founding fathers of the Confederacy. Toombs served as the Confederacy's first Secretary of State under Jefferson Davis and later fought as a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, where he was notably wounded at the Battle of Antietam.