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GEORGE H. THOMAS A.L.S.

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GEORGE H. THOMAS A.L.S.
<b>112. GEORGE H. THOMAS</b> (1839 - 1906) Union brigadier general who fought under Buell at Shiloh and lost a leg in the Red River campaign. Interesting A.L.S. "<i>George Thomas Maj. Gen. USA</i>", on Dept. of the Cumberland letterhead, 2pp., 8vo., Louisville, Nov. 14, 1867, to Bvt. Gen. William Landram, in part: "<i>...I received by express a few days since a pair of silver spurs enclosed with a note from you to me and a note from Judge Barton to you in which the judge, after explaining the history of the spurs, expressed himself in very complimentary terms in regards to my to my surviving the late war. The chivalric conception which prompted the judge to set apart these spurs for me; my grateful thanks for the compliment he has paid me...</i>". Tipped onto mount, very good.<b>$400-500</b>