Extremely rare. James Davis Porter (1828-1912), at the start of the war, he became adjutant-general under Gen. Gideon J. Pillow, and assisted in organizing the Confederate troops in West Tennessee. He was then appointed Chief of Staff to Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham and served in that position throughout the war. He was Governor of Tennessee, educator, descendant of early Massachusetts settlers. Chancellor of the University of Nashville & President of George Peabody College for teachers. 1881 stock with nice uncanceled signature of Porter. Engraved and printed by National Bank Note Co, NY. Great!! The Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway was a railway company operating the in the southern United States of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia. It began as the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, chartered in Nashville in December 1845 and was the first railway to operate in the state of Tennessee.

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