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CHESTER A ARTHUR (1830-86) President. Civil War date LS, "C A Arthur", as New York Acting Asst Qu...

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CHESTER A ARTHUR (1830-86) President. Civil War date LS,  C A Arthur , as New York Acting Asst Qu...
CHESTER A ARTHUR (1830-86) President. Civil War date LS, "C A Arthur", as New York Acting Asst Quartermaster General, 2pp (single sheet), May 31, 1861, 4to, New York, to Major John Tinsly in Albany, interesting content re buying shoes for Colonel Elmer Ellsworth's Regiment. In part, "...I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram requesting me to send to you a copy of the order on which shoes were purchased, for Col [Elmer] Ellsworth's Regiment...They were purchased by me under the following circumstances. This Regiment...were under orders to proceed to Washington. Nothing had been furnished them, by the State...A requistion had been made by the Col for shoes which the men needed badly, but this had not been filled...as I had received no shoes from Albany...About noon on the 29th of April I was informed that the Regiment was under orders to leave for Washington that afternoon. I was urged by the Col that it was absolutely necessary that shoes should be had...many of them being almost barefooted...I therefore went personally...and purchased the shoes...sent to the quarters of the Regiment...to put on, before they marched through the streets...There were about Eleven hundred men in Col Ellsworth's Regiment..." Elmer E Ellsworth (1837-61), was a Union Colonel & martyr, commanding the 11th New York. After tearing down the Confederate Flag from a tavern in Alexandria, Va, he was killed (May 24, 1861) by the proprietor. At the time of this letter the gallant Colonel had already been dead for a week. One ink smear in text, o/w VG. $1,500-2,000