Auction Date:2010 Aug 11 @ 22:00 (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 as president, “Let these men take the oath of Dec. 8, 1863 & be discharged. A. Lincoln, Jan. 6, 1865,” on one of the two partial remaining panels of the second integral page of a one page letter written to Lincoln by James Embry and A. J. Mershon on an 8 x 9.5 lightly-lined sheet. The letter to Lincoln reads in full: “The undersigned Union men & citizens of Madison County Ky respectfully represent that Harvey Ellison James B. Ellison and George Ellison have been confined as Prisoners of War for about 17 months at ‘Camp Douglas’ Illinois. We learn that they are anxious to take the required oath and return to their homes and be loyal to the Government. Harvey Ellison is now very sick & may not recover if he is not released. They joined the Rebels in 1862 in the midst of great excitement in Ky, and as we believe, without having properly considered the step they were taking. Their Father is an honest, quiet and an industrious Citizen of our Country, and is very anxious for their release. We respectfully ask their release upon taking the required oath.” Lincoln’s endorsement is penned on the reverse of the second integral page, on a partial, although fully self-contained, panel. A bit of scattered mild soiling, a couple spots to date of endorsement, and a diagonal crease to letter, otherwise fine condition.
The Ellison brothers were all members of the 7th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, later reassigned under Confederate Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan’s 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Brigade. Morgan’s Raid of Ohio in July 1863, the longest Confederate cavalry raid of the war—one that covered more than 1100 miles in about three and a half weeks—was a bold maneuver that ended in the capture of the general and most of his men. Judging from Lincoln’s comment that the men had “been confined as Prisoners of War for about 17 months” at Camp Douglas, that would likely count them as among the Southerners captured and sent to the notorious Illinois camp, one that became known for its inhumane conditions. An interesting document tying the great president with one of the South’s most aggressive campaigns and the Union’s deadliest prisoner of war camps.
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