Lot #40

U. S. Grant Autograph Letter Signed as President, Honoring the Union's War Dead While Declining to Attend an Army of the Cumberland Reunion

Description

"The dead who lost their lives in their country's cause, and those who have died since exposing their lives in the same cause, should be ever held in grateful remembrance"

ALS as president, three pages on two adjoining sheets, 5 x 8, Executive Mansion letterhead, November 17, 1870. Handwritten letter graciously declining an invitation to a Civil War soldiers' reunion, in part: "It would afford me great pleasure to be with you on the occasion of the meeting of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, on the 24th & 25th inst. if it were possible. The time however is so near the beginning of the next session of Congress, for which I have to propose, that it will be impossible. I very much appreciate these Army Society reunions, and hope they may long be kept up. The dead who lost their lives in their country's cause, and those who have died since exposing their lives in the same cause, should be ever held in grateful remembrance." In fine condition, with light soiling only to the first page.

Auction Info

• Auction Title: Fine Autographs and Artifacts Ft. The Bob Neuwirth collection, Bob Dylan and Folk Music
• Dates: #713 - Ended 03/12/2025

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