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Fuss & Feathers Winfield Scott ALS

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Fuss & Feathers Winfield Scott ALS
<B>"Fuss & Feathers" Winfield Scott Autograph Letter Signed</B></I> recommends the arrest of a fellow war hero for being drunk. Two pages, 5" x 8", n.p. October 21, 1845. Winfield Scott's bravery on the northern front in the war of 1812 brought him the honor of a brevet major general. He writes as general in chief of the army to William Marcy, secretary of war, that he has received information from a confidential source that Col. George Croghan has been seen in Baltimore in a condition calculated to bring disgrace on the service. "<I>...Perhaps the secretary may think it proper to instruct an officer to inquire into the circumstances & if they be verified, to bring him to his place of arrest...</B></I>" Croghan was the hero who valiantly defended Fort Stephenson and Meig against overwhelming some 700 British forces and 200 Indians with only 130 men and a single piece of artillery. The nephew of George Rogers Clark, he was brevetted a lieutenant colonel, awarded a gold medal for bravery, and made inspector general. Very fine condition. <I>From the Henry E. Luhrs Collection.</B></I>
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