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Abraham Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln

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Auction Date:2011 Feb 09 @ 19:00 (UTC-5 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
War-dated handwritten endorsement, signed as president, “Respectfully submitted to the War Department, A Lincoln, March 27, 1862,” on the reverse of a one-page 7.5 x 10.5 ALS from Kentuckian Fontaine T. Fox, Jr., to Kentucky Unionist Congressman Aaron Harding. Fox wrote, in part: “Genl Ward read to me that part of your letter pertaining to me. I thank you for your kindness. I have not been enabled to fix my place yet. A certain Colonel gave me an unconditional promise to fix it, but when a vacancy occurred in his Regiment he refused to keep his promise, and it is now again necessary to ask Pres Lincoln for his confirmation. My pay to this time amounts to about $800.” Creasing, two small tears along the bottom, and areas of toning, one of which passes through Lincoln’s signature, otherwise fine condition.

Fox, who served with General William Thomas Ward during the Atlanta Campaign, took his request up the chain of command...all the way to the commander-in-chief...in his quest to be paid. During his time with General Ward, Fox would serve with the third division XX Corps for the remainder of the campaign. Oddly, despite President Lincoln submitting the request to the War Department, no action was taken on Fox’s behalf until 1866, when President Andrew Johnson signed a Joint Resolution of Congress ordering Fox be paid ‘a sum equal to the pay and allowances of a first Lieutenant and Aide-de-Camp’ from October 8, 1861 to April 3, 1862. Interesting evidence of how the wheels of military justice, even in the 19th century, turned rather slowly.
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