United States. A Pre Civil War Treasurer of the State of Texas Treasury Warrant 1860, Named to A.D. Chadoin, Signed by Major Clement Read Johns

The warrant is made out in the amount of $114.70, to "A.D. Chadoin", in regards to "Protection of the Frontier", for "Services rendered in Capt Br....... (illegible) Company", dated "December 3rd 1860", signed by the Comptroller, Clement R. (Read) Johns, "Appropriation No. 13-0", with a large "X" stroked through it, printed in black ink, with handwritten entries in black ink, measuring 210 mm (w) x 90 mm (h), chattered edges, water damage evident on the right side, fine. 

 

 

Footnotes: 

1. 2nd Corporal A.D. Chadoin is listed on the Muster Roll of Company A, 4th Regiment, Texas Volunteers, in a Civil War era publication entitled "The Campaign from Texas to Maryland with the Battle of Fredericksburg" by Rev. Nicholas A. Davis, Chaplain, Fourth Texas Regiment, C.S.A. (Confederate States Army), containing 176 pages, printed at Richmond by the Office of the Presbyterian Committee of Publication of the Confederate State in 1862. He is listed on page 148 as having been "present" at the Battles of Eltham's Landing, Seven Pines and Manassas (AKA First Battle of First Manassas and Battle of Bull Run) in Virginia, and "sick" at the Battles of Gaines' Farm (Mill), Malvern Hill (AKA Poindexter's Farm) and Freeman's Ford (AKA First Battle of Rappahannock Station, Waterloo Bridge, White Sulphur Springs, Lee Springs) in Virginia, along with the Battles of Boonsboro Gap (AKA Battle of South Mountain) and Sharpsburg (spelled Sharsburg in publication, AKA Battle of Antietam) in Maryland. 

2. Major Clement Read Johns was born on August 12, 1816 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. He married Amanda F. Durham on November 17, 1850 in San Marcos, Hays County, Texas and is listed as a Farmer in the 1850 Census. He served as Comptroller for the State of Texas from 1858-1864 and later operated a land agency in Austin, Texas. He died on July 30, 1886, at the age of 69 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Austin, Travis County, Texas.