Mexican War | Notes
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JEFFERSON DAVIS Five days after General Lee's surrender, the Confederate President, determined to fight on, signs instructions to General Beauregard, framed in the Gallery of History style to 37x21. ALS: "J.D.Sale Price $10,200.00
$12,000.00
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JOSEPH H. EATON. ANS: "J.H. Eaton/Paymaster USA", 1p, 8x5. Paymaster General's Office, 1873 January 10. In full: "Respectfully returned to the 2 Auditor U.S. Try. in response to inquiry by letter of this date. These papers were retained, awaiting action upon the certificate 596.Sale Price $90.00
$100.00
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LOUIS GOLDSBOROUGH. ANS: "L.M. Goldsborough", 1p, 7x3 lined sheet. No place, no date. Addressee unknown. In full: "With best regards to a friend of long/standing whom I prize most highly for her/very many excellent qualities." Goldsborough commanded Commodore Matthew C.Sale Price $396.00
$440.00
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WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK Manuscript note welcoming a visit from a friend, with handwritten postscript by Hancock apologizing that his haste to mail it required dictation. Manuscript Letter with Autograph Note signed: "Winfield Scott Hancock", and initialed "w. s. h." 2 pages (integral leaf), 5x8.Sale Price $552.50
$650.00
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WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK During the 1880 Presidential campaign, he thanks a South Carolina woman for a palmetto hat. Manuscript Letter with Autograph Note signed: "Winfield Scott Hancock", 2 pages (integral leaf), 5½x8½. Governor's Island, New York Harbor, 1880 September 22. To Miss S.Sale Price $552.50
$650.00
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WINFIELD SCOTT HANCOCK The General and his wife and mother all signed this 2-year promissory note for $104. Promissory Note signed: "Winfield S. Hancock", Almira Hancock" and "Adaline Russell", 8½x3½. St. Louis, Mo., 1876 December 28.Sale Price $850.00
$1,000.00
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MAJOR GENERAL ROBERT PATTERSON The highly experienced American general writes an address on this clipping from a letter Autograph note unsigned. Address of T. Pimford written in the general's hand. 3½x3.Sale Price $144.00
$160.00
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FITZ JOHN PORTER General Porter writes a note on one of his calling-cards in 1883 Autograph Note on Calling Card signed: "To Mr. S. Greenbaum/from/[Genl. Fitz. John Porter]/With good wishes./ [Morristown, N.J.]" on verso "I comply with your request/with pleasure and to the vest/of my ability.Sale Price $360.00
$400.00
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FITZ JOHN PORTER Only months before he won his 22-year long battle to reverse his Civil War court martial, Porter signed this note in New York. Autograph Note signed: "With pleasure I comply/Yours truly/Fitz John Porter/New York/September 17th, 1885", 4½x4½ irregularly cut.Sale Price $360.00
$400.00
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DANIEL RUGGLES. ANS: "Daniel Ruggles/Brig. Genl CS Army", 1p, 8x3¼. Corinth, 1862 March 13. To Brigadier General Lucius Marshall Walker.In full: "Copy for General Walker, Tuscumbia, for his information.Sale Price $360.00
$400.00
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DAVID WEISIGER. Promissory Note signed: "D.A. Weisiger" as Cashier, 8¼x3¾. Petersburg, Virginia, 1870 March 9. No. 1124. Promissory note for $600, issued by Citizens' Savings Bank to W.F. Doyle.Sale Price $360.00
$400.00
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JOHN E. WOOL Wool gives a New York reverend permission to visit Fort Monroe in 1863, the year of his retirement Autograph note signed "John E. Wool/Major General" 1 page, 5x8. "Headquarters, New York 23", 1863. To John T. Ogden, Esq.Sale Price $765.00
$900.00
