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Gideon Pillow

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Gideon Pillow

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Auction Date:2010 Dec 08 @ 19:00 (UTC-05:00 : 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
Lawyer, politician, and Confederate general in the American Civil War. He is best remembered for his poor performance at the Battle of Fort Donelson. War-dated LS signed “Gid. J. Pillow, Brig Gen C.S.A. Superintendant Brig,” one page both sides, 8.25 x 10.25, September 24, 1863. Letter to an unidentified general. In full: “Your correspondence with Col. Dowd has been submitted to me. And I regret to see a disposition on your part to charge the officers in command of this Bureau with bad faith. You will see that there is no foundation for nay such intimation.

Maj. Davenport tenured his battalion for the war as a supporting force to this Bureau. A copy of his letter is furnished. In addition he stated,
As is remembered by my staff, that he had not been mustered into the State Service. Under this impression and under the statements made in Maj. Davenport’s letter his command was accepted for a supporting force to this Bureau. His letter says they were raised for three years or the war.

But under information subsequently received from the War Department and forwarded by me to Gov. Pettus the objection raised raised by you are of no avail. You will see from that decision of the War Department that the view I originally held is sustained by the Government and that the forces of Mississippi the subject of controversy must be mustered in for the war or else the conscripts must be surrendered to the Confederate Army and mustered in for the army.

In…of all this, if Maj. Davenport’s command choses to go into the Confederate Service for the was in preference to remaining in the six months service, I should feel surprised at your objecting to a proportion manifested so beneficial to the common cause of our country.” Intersecting folds, scattered light toning, mainly to folds and left edge, and some light chipping along left edge, otherwise fine condition.

For the remainder of 1863 and into 1864, Pillow successfully headed the Volunteer and Conscript Bureau for much of the Deep South, helping to fill the ranks of General Joseph E. Johnston's army. However, Pillow continued to be viewed as a high-ranking officer who was prone to overstepping his authority and to alienating both superiors and subordinates—a tendency he demonstrates here.
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