Outstanding collection of 11 ALSs from notable Union officers, all one page, dated between 1845 and 1874 (predominately 1870s). Signers are: Ambrose Burnside, John A. Dix, Winfield Scott Hancock, David D. Porter, George Morell, Neal Dow, Nathaniel P. Banks, Jefferson C. Davis, William H. Emory, Fitz-Greene Halleck, and John Schofield. Scott’s letter, in part: “I do not understand to what book you refer when you speak of the National Portrait Gallery. Nor do I know anything of the Biography of mine to which you allude.” Both the Emory and Davis letters mention General William Rosecrans; most others are general letters complying with an unspecified request. Also included is a manuscript DS of Lorenzo Thomas’s General Orders No. 66, signed at the conclusion by Thomas. In overall fine condition. RR Auction COA.
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