Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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
ALS signed “Benjn. Stebbins,” one page, 8 x 10, August 25, 1812. In a letter to Captain Glidden Stebbins of Belchertown, Massachusetts, Benjamin writes, in part: “I have to communicate to you the fate of our northwestern Army under the command of General Hull…which arrived here on Sunday evening the 23rd Ins. and another this morning at day break. We are informed that Genl. Hull with his Army never made prisoner of War at Detroit on the 16th Inst. No correct account of killed & wounded some say 500 but uncertain the same accounts say that the Brittish & Indians are marching rapidly upon our frontier. Inhabitants & our country is in the utmost confusion although we are at great distance form the scene of action—Our troops expect to march on Sunday next but I fear the force will as before prove inadequate…but God knows the event. There is various opinions here reporting the War measures but lately most agree that the business is badly conducted. I am in good health but do not expect to be called out with the troop for on the whole regiment are not expected to go. I shall be left for as I am paymaster to the Regiment. I have no call until the whole are called upon in great haste.” Address panel on reverse of second integral page penned in Stebbins’ hand. In very good condition, with intersecting folds, one passing through the middle of the last name of the signature, uniform toning, light creasing, a few trivial spots of soiling, and residue and a shadow from wax seal on reverse of second integral page, otherwise fine condition. A harrowing account of the fall of Detroit on August 16, 1812, a pinnacle defeat which served to thwart the first American invasion of Cananda.
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