Lincoln Document that started Civil War for sale

[Linda Anderson]

The Raab Collection is selling the document signed by Lincoln that ordered Union blockades of Confederate ports. Asking price is $900,000.

http://www.raabcollection.com/abraham-li...ations-war

"The U.S. Supreme Court Ruling on the War’s Official Commencement

After the war, the Supreme Court issued an opinion fixing the exact dates on which the war began and ended. It held: “...The proclamation of intended blockade by the President may therefore be assumed as marking the first of these dates, and the proclamation that the war had closed, as marking the second.'' Thus, according to the Supreme Court, Lincoln’s signature on this order sealing the imposition of the blockade marked the official beginning of the Civil War."