Middletown Valley Ransom Document Collection

MSA SC 4889
Dates	1864/07/08
Medium	copy photographs
Restrictions	RESTRICTED: no copies of photographs are to be made without written permission of the Middleton Valley Historical Society, P. O. Box 294, Middleton, MD 21769
Storage	33/03/04/20 (copy photograph); 33/01/03 (negatives); 33/03/02/30 (slides)
Description
Document demanding ransom from the town of Middleton by Confederate Troops during the Civil War by order of General Early, and signed by A. J. Pendleton.
History
The confederate troops went to the bank to demand $5000 for ransom, and the bank went to Peter Leatherman, then the wealthiest man in the Valley. Mr. Leatherman put up $1500 and the troops wrote out this receipt telling the town when to come up with the rest of the money. The document was found in the back of a book from Peter Leatherman's library by his descendant Mrs. Austin Main and given to the Middleton Valley Historical Society.