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Auction Date:2012 Mar 14 @ 18:00 (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
Archive of 13 letters, manuscripts, and documents. All but two are letters to or about Lieutenant Charles H. Gesner; two are to Lieut. Col. Nelson A. Gesner, Charles’ brother. Thomas W. Egan (1836-1887) was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 40th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment on June 14, 1861. The 40th was known as the Mozart Regiment because it was sponsored by the Democratic Party’s Mozart Hall Committee. He led the regiment at the Battles of Second Bull Run, Chantilly, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Wilderness. He was wounded at Gettysburg and had two horses shot under him. Five documents in the archive are official contemporary copies. After being wounded at Petersburg in June 1864, Egan was promoted to Brigadier General, being personally handed his commission by Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.

Items include:

ALS signed, “T.W. Egan” as Colonel, 40th New York Volunteers, two pages, 7.75 x 9.75, Headquarters 40th N.Y.S.V., Near Falmouth, Va., January 3, 1863. He had addressed it to “Major General Thos. Hillhouse,, Adjutant General State of New York,” but before it was sent, Egan found out that when New York Gov. Edwin D. Morgan’s term ended on December 31, 1862, three days earlier, so did Hillhouse’s. Egan crossed out Hillhouse’s name, marked “(Copy)” at the head of the first page, rewrote the letter and sent it. Egan requests new Governor Horatio Seymour reappoint Lieutenant Charles H. Gesner who was “severely wounded” but “rejoined his regiment just soon enough to enter the battles of Hay Market, Bull Run 2d, and Chantilly.”

ALS signed, “T.W. Egan” one page, both sides, 8 x 9.75, February 6, 1864. To Col. J.B. Fry, Provost Marshal General, “an appointment in the Invalid Corps…He was very severely wounded at Fair Oaks, rejoining his regiment at Harrison’s Landing just before the evacuation. He was again wounded–more severely than before–at Bull Run or Manassas Plain. From this wound he has never recovered.”


A contemporary copy of a letter from Jacob A. Covington, one page, 7.75 x 9.75. Headquarters 40th N.Y.S.V., 40th N.Y. Volunteers, Camp near Fredericksburg, Va., Dec. 23d, 1862. In full “Having experienced a radical change in my feeling toward the South, and the efforts that they are now making for their freedom, I no longer wish to bear arms against them, but wish to remain strictly neutral. According I most respectfully beg leave to resign my commission as Second Lieutenant in the 40th Regiment New York Volunteers.”

In very good overall condition.
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