ALS, four pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, Headquarters Armies of the United States letterhead, August 3, 1866. Letter to Ella Steele about the promotion of a soldier. In part: "Your note advocating the claims of Paul Jones, no doubt a very brave and deserving young man, for a Commission in the Regular Army was duly rec'd. As you assure me you have no personal interest in the matter I know Mr. J. must be an extra deserving young man. If you were personally interested you could only see his virtues and none of his faults…If he is already an applicant for a Commission in the Regular Army, and has recommendations of officers under whom he has served, on file in Washington, then there is nothing more to do unless it may be to get the recommendation of his Member of Congress if he can. If he has not got these things he had better write to his regimental commander, and Brigade & Division commanders if they know him, and get their recommendations. Having so fair a pleader as yourself will not set back his claims in the least. Mrs. Grant and the children are all well." In very good to fine condition, with a strip of mounting remnant, and associated staining, to the left edge of the first.
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