BRIGADIER GENERAL JOSEPH S. FULLERTON - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 08/11/1873 - HFSID 177250
Price: $420.00
JOSEPH S. FULLERTON
ALS to Col. Norman Smith, asking probing questions about preparations for a reunion
meeting of the Army of the Cumberland
Autograph Letter signed: "J. S. Fullerton", 2 pages (front and verso), 5½x8½. St Louis,
Missouri, 1873 August 11. On letterhead of his law office to Col. Norman M. Smith,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In full: "I have just returned to this City after an absence of six
weeks; and I so much work to bring up that I can write but a line or two. Many members
of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland have written to know the date of the
meeting at Pittsburgh, and to know whether they will receive notifications of said
meeting. Have such notices been sent to the members? Please let me know. Also: have
members yet been selected to reply to toasts? Do you know whether your Committee got
a list of names for invited guests from Bickham of Dayton, O., or from Gen. Lou Wood of
the same place? Please let me hear from you as soon as convenient. Yours truly". Joseph
Scott Fullerton (1835-1897), a St Louis-based lawyer for several railroads and other
corporations, was a staff officer in the Union's Army of the Cumberland during the Civil War,
brevetted to brigadier general in 1865 for distinguished service at the battles of
Franklin and Nashville. In May 1865, he was appointed to assist General Oliver O. Howard
in organizing the Freedmen's Bureau, but requested relief from this assignment 5 months later.
He became military secretary to President Johnson. Johnson delegated Fullerton to
travel south and report on activities of the Freedmen's Bureau; his negative reports on
the Bureau's activities antagonized Congressional Republicans. Discharged from the
army in September 1866, he was appointed Postmaster at St Louis by President Johnson. Later
he resumed legal work, and was for 25 years the treasurer of the Society of the Army of
the Cumberland, the second largest (after the G.A.R.) organization of Union veterans. He died
in a railroad accident while serving on a commission to create a Chickamauga battlefield site.
Normal mailing folds. Slightly worn, slightly creased. Pencil notes (unknown hand) present.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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