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MAJOR GENERAL OLIVER O. HOWARD - MANUSCRIPT LETTER SIGNED 11/25/1890 - HFSID 262865

Oliver O. Howard signed this letter in 1890 to ask a publisher that had not accepted his manuscript for Providences in the Army to return his manuscript Manuscript letter signed "O. O. Howard" as a Major General in the United States Army.

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OLIVER O. HOWARD
Oliver O. Howard signed this letter in 1890 to ask a publisher that had not accepted his manuscript for Providences in the Army to return his manuscript
Manuscript letter signed "O. O. Howard" as a Major General in the United States Army. 1 page, 6x9, on stationery of Headquarters of the Divisionof the Atlantic.With a b/w sepia-toned 3½x4½ photo of Howard affixed inside letter. Nov. 25, 1890. Addressed to Batchelor Publishing Co., Tribune Building, New York City. In full: "Dear Mr. Batchelor The 'Ms.' entitled. 'Providences in the Army' not having been accepted on account of the suspension of your 'G.A.R.' Dept, will you have the kind-ness to return it to me? Yours truly". Howard (1830-1909, born in Leeds, Maine) lost his right arm at Fair Oaks during the American Civil War, engaged at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg and commanded the Army of the Tennessee in Sherman's march to the sea. By the end of the Civil War he was a Brigadier-General. General Howard founded Howard University in 1867 becoming its President in 1869. He served as first Commissioner of the Freedmans Bureau, a federal agency designed to assist Black Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom at the end of the Civil War. In 1874, Howard retired from both jobs. He later served as Superintendent at West Point (1881-1882). Lightly toned and creased. Paper loss and tears on back leaf of letter (no show-through). Photo is lightly silvered with errors in negative reproduced in the image. Folded in quarters and unfolded. Otherwise in fine condition.

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