BRIGADIER GENERAL JOHN H. WINDER - MANUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED 05/05/1862 - HFSID 262775
Sale Price $595.00
Reg. $700.00
JOHN H. WINDER
Manuscript LS: "J.H. Winder", 1 page, 7½x3¾. Provost Marshall, 1862
May 5. In full: "Mrs. Langford states that her husband has gone off &
left her destitute with two children to support and since his departure-(four
weeks ago) has given up the house where she lives. Please attend to the
matter." John H. Winder (1800-1865), a West Point graduate, served the US
Army with distinction during the Mexican War, receiving field promotions for
his conduct in the battles on the approach to Mexico City. Siding with the
Confederacy, General Winder was placed in command of Confederate prisons east
of the Mississippi. His appointee, Captain Henry Wirz, commanding officer at
Andersonville prison and the only Confederate military officer tried, convicted
and hanged after the Civil War. Winder, Henry Wirz's superior, who had more
responsibility for conditions within the prison than Wirz, died of a heart
attack before the war ended, on February 7, 1865. Other Confederate leaders, and
some later historians, have denied that Winder was deliberately cruel to Union
prisoners, explaining that severe Confederate shortages of food and medicine
render their proper care impossible. Winder spent a year as an instructor at
West Point; among his students was future CSA President Jefferson Davis.
Lightly creased. Folds touch signature. 2 pinhead-size file holes at blank
right. Irregular lower edge.
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