CIVIL WAR CAPT 1st OH ARTILLERY CRIMINAL SCANDAL CONGRESSMAN AUTOGRAPH SIGNED VF

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STEPHEN WALLACE DORSEY (1842 - 1916) US CIVIL WAR RECONSTRUCTION REPUBLICAN “CARPETBAGGER” SENATOR FROM ARKANSAS 1873-1879, CIVIL WAR UNION CAPTAIN IN THE OHIO 1st LIGHT ARTILLERY & CATTLE RANCHER and MINER IN NEW MEXICO and COLORADO!

Dorsey’s reputation was tarnished by the United State Post Office Department’s Star Route Scandal, in which Dorsey and his partners were accused of defrauding the government of $412,000. Dorsey was defended by noted criminal law attorney Robert G. Ingersoll. Though he was found not guilty, the cost of his defense and the damage to his reputation all but destroyed Dorsey’s political and financial ambitions. In 1878, The Star Route scandal involved a lucrative 19th-century scheme whereby United States postal officials received bribes in exchange for awarding postal delivery contracts in southern and western areas. >

HERE’S DORSEY’S SIGNATURE REMOVED FROM A 19th CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, and SIGNED: “S. W. Dorsey Arkansas”