Collection 15 letters and documents from various officers of the American Civil War. Letters are:
War–dated ALS signed “John E. Wool, Major General,” two pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, February 3, 1864. Letter to General George McClellan’s wife, Ellen. In part: “Herewith you will receive my autograph and photograph. I have not the vanity, however, to believe that your appreciation of either will be realized at the Sanitary Fair. Yet if loyalty and devotion to country for more than fifty years, with unceasing efforts with others to prevent its ruin and destruction, which have subjected me to many sleepless nights, would make it of value, it might claim a place in the interesting volume you are preparing for the Fair.”
ALS signed “John E. Wool, Major General,” one page, 6.5 x 5, November 19, 1853. Letter to Lieutenant James Hardie of the 3rd Artillery. In full: “I have this day appointed you Aide-de-Camp to date from the 1st December 1853 in place of 1st Lieutenant Grier Tallmadge 4th Artillery resigned.”
ALS, signed “B. B. Egleston,” one page, lightly-lined, 7.75 x 10.25, Wichita Water Company letterhead, June 16, 1886. Response to an inquiry. In part: “I will say that it gives me great pleasure to comply with your request as I consider it a compliment and honor to have my name associated with such names as I know you will select.” Egleston was the general who received the surrender of Atlanta under General Wilson’s orders.
LS from David Hunter, signed “D. Hunter,” one page, lightly-lined, 7.75 x 9.75, September 25, 1867. Letter to Lieutenant L. H. Orleman. In full: “You are hereby informed that you have passed a satisfactory examination before this Board according to the Act of Congress approved July 28th 1866.” Hunter was president of the military commission trying the conspirators involved with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
ALS from Orville E. Babcock, signed “O. E. Babcock,” one page both sides, 5 x 8, personal letterhead, September 12, 1872. Letter regarding Grant’s campaign. In part: “Our news is good—from Me. our friends tell us that it is simply a question of how much majority…Our news from Pa.—is brighter—our best informed friends still say we shall carry the state in Oct. I think so—Vermont is all right any way…The news from N.C. has not helped the Liberal cause—they are now crying fraud to cover their own acts.”
War–dated partly-printed DS from Satterlee Hospital from Isaac Israel Hayes, signed “I. I. Hayes,” one page, 7.5 x 9.75, August 15, 1864. Assistant Quartermaster General’s Office hospital transfer document for transport of George Borman, granting a “furlough from Satterlee Hospital, Philad’a, Pa.” Approved vertically to the left side by Hayes as a surgeon in charge of the hospital.
War-dated ALS, signed “J. B. Parker,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, November 4, 1862. Letter to Dr. Henry McSherry. In part: “Have heard as yet nothing from Martinsburg. McClellan’s army is said to be advancing, expect to be able to hear before a great while. It is the impression Lee will give battle near Winchester, at or near ‘Bunker Hill’…No news in Washington, save that they are removing patients from all the churches & Lincoln rides out with a body guard.”
War-dated ALS signed “Edward W. Serrell, Col. Vol. Engrs,” one page, lightly-lined, 7.75 x 9.5, January 17, 1862. Letter to Assistant Quartermaster Captain Hascall. In part: “There will be wanted in addition to the material for the pier which you have already been informed the following Iron bolts. 400 one inch round bolts with heads and nuts, 120 one & a quarter inch round iron bolts with nuts without heads.” Serrell was an engineer for the Union during the Civil War (1826–1906) known for his work on the ‘Marsh Battery’ during the Second Battle of Charleston Harbor.
ALS from John H. Martindale, signed “J. H. Martindale,” two pages, lightly-lined both sides, 5 x 8, headquarters Military District of Washington letterhead, November 5, 1863. Letter to a potential real estate investor. In part: “There is no objection to the purchase which you propose to make on the ground that the present owner is or has been a resident of the insurrectionary territory. That fact will not impress on her the station of ‘Alien’ to the US Govt. If however, the present owner has ‘given aid or comfort to the rebellion…conveyence of such property will be null and void.’” Martindale was a union officer and politician who participated in the Peninsula Campaign as well as the Bermuda Hundred Campaign, the Battle of Cold Harbor, and the Siege of Petersburg.
War–dated partly-printed DS, signed “Henry M. Naglee, Br. Genl.,” one page, 26 x 8.25, June 9, 1862. A “Consolidated Morning Report of First Brigade Casey’s Division…Commanded by Brigadier General Henry M. Naglee,” with manuscript listings of the brigade’s colonels, their garrisons, and number of soldiers.
War–dated partly-printed DS from William L. Ames, who served as a lieutenant in a regiment of the US Colored Troops, signed “Wm. L. Ames,” one page, 9.75 x 7.75, November 7, 1864. A “Descriptive List and Account of Pay and Clothing of Willis Spate,” a black soldier who deserted his regiment, listing his personal details and an amount drawn from his clothing account.
Handwritten war-dated pass from Union general and surgeon John H. Cuyler, signed “Jno. M. Cuyler, Medl. Inspector U. S. A.,” on an off-white 8 x 4.5 sheet, dated May 17, 1864. Pass reads, in full: “Pass J. A. Henry to Washington.”
Partly-printed DS from John A. Dix, one page, 16 x 10, September 21, 1876. Dix appoints Colonel M. M. Price “an Officer of the Army of the Boys in Blue with the rank of Major General.”
War-dated ALS signed “Fitz Henry Warren, Col. Commanding Post,” one page, lightly-lined, 7.5 x 4, March 30, 1862. Brief letter to Quartermaster Carr. In full: “Will furnish Sergeant Clark with a horse for temporary use.”
War-dated handwritten endorsement from Montgomery Meigs, signed “M. C. Meigs,” on the reverse of an April 18, 1864, letter to Meigs from a soldier requesting a leave of absence “on account of serious illness.” Meigs was a career Army officer, civil engineer, and construction engineer for a number of facilities in Washington, D.C. RR Auction COA.
