Superb ALS signed “W. T. Sherman, Lt. General,” three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 7.75, Headquarters Military Division of the Missouri letterhead, December 2, 1868. Letter to Admiral David D. Porter at Annapolis, in part: “As the time approaches for our Grand Reunion of the Western Armies, at Chicago Dec 15 & 16, the Committee on Invitations is naturally anxious to know from yourself that you will come…There is no single person we would rather see than you. You won with us, you were essentially one of us, at Vicksburg, and on the Atlantic Coast. So that a meeting without you would be incomplete…This is the first united meeting we have attempted since the War, and I feel we cannot keep them up long, as we are scattering very fast.” Affixed at the hinge to a slightly larger sheet. In fine condition, with splitting along the hinge, and a thin old mounting remnant along the reverse of the last page. A fine example of the camaraderie that existed between the US Army and Navy in the aftermath of their success in the Civil War. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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