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GIBBON, JOHN

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GIBBON, JOHN
(1827 - 1896) Union major general who fought throughout the war at the head of the Iron brigade, severely wounded at Gettysburg, and after the war led the relief column to bury the dead at the Little Big Horn. A.L.S. ""John Gibbon"" 1p. 8vo., Vancouver Barracks, W. T., Sept. 3, 1887 on Headquarters Dept. of the Columbia letterhead concerning a letter that fellow Gen. Henry Abbot had sent. Very good