MAJOR GENERAL ADOLPHUS W. GREELY - AUTOGRAPH SENTIMENT SIGNED - HFSID 24189
Sale Price $144.00
Reg. $160.00
ADOLPHUS W. GREELY
Autograph Sentiment signed as Major General on a 5x3 card
Autograph Sentiment signed: "Yours/A W Greely/Major General", 5x3
card. Adolphus W. Greely (1844-1935) survived two years of Arctic
winters on Ellesmere Island (1882-1884) without being re-supplied and losing 19
of his 25 men. It was the most northerly point (83°24' N) reached by that
date. He became, by order of Pres. Cleveland, a Brigadier General and
Chief of the Signal Corps of the Army in March 1887 of the following year.
In that post, he was responsible over the next 20 years for construction of tens
of thousands of miles of telegraph lines and submarine cables in Puerto Rico,
Cuba, the Philippines, Alaska and elsewhere and for the Army's earliest adoption
of wireless telegraphy. He was promoted to Major General in 1906. In 1935, he
received the Congressional Medal of Honor. Faint glue remnants on verso
slightly show through at corners. Fine condition.
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