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1837 US Army General Alexander Macomb’s Manuscript for his Courts Martial Book

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1837 US Army General Alexander Macomb’s Manuscript for his Courts Martial Book
Post-Revolutionary War to Civil War
1837 Manuscript Book on “Courts Martial” by Alexander Macomb Commanding General of the United States Army
1837 Handwritten Manuscript for his Book titled, “The Practice of Courts Martial,” by Alexander Macomb, Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 1841, Very Fine.
The Handwritten Manuscript for United States Army Commanding General Alexander Macomb’s Published Book by Harper & Brothers, New York in 1841. This original Manuscript notebook has some tattered portions of the front and back covers being torn, but the internal pages are generally well written, clean, sound and easily legible. Macomb, who served as Commanding General of the United States Army from May 29, 1828 until his death on June 25, 1841, wrote this book at the request of the U.S. Army to clarify recent developments in the procedures of the military courts. It was intended as an instruction manual on the workings of the military Court Martial, and references in the field, still available for sale to this day! See: Macomb, Alexander, Major General of the United States Army, The Practice of Courts Martial, (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841) 154 pages.

There are 27 Additional Contemporary Letters also included in this lot being correspondence between Macomb, the Publisher of the book, and several Departments of the U.S. military, dated between 1839 to 1841, all of which pertain to publication of this historic reference book. These “Macomb” Letters are Contemporary Kept Copies, not the signed originals. The manuscript contains Eighty-six pages, all bound in the single contemporary notebook measuring 8.5” x 13” with four (4) unbound extra sheets. An amazing, highly important historic Legal U.S. Military related source document on Court Martial. (28 items). Provenance: Ex: Hotel des Ventes’ Chateau d’Hauteville Sale, September 11-12, 2015, lot 1065.
Alexander Macomb (April 3, 1782 – June 25, 1841) was the Commanding General of the United States Army from May 29, 1828 until his death on June 25, 1841. Macomb was the field commander at the Battle of Plattsburgh during the War of 1812 and, after the stunning victory, was lauded with praise and styled "The Hero of Plattsburgh" by some of the American press. He was promoted to Major General for his conduct, receiving both the Thanks of Congress and a Congressional Gold Medal.