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Group of Miscellaneous Civil War Content Letters

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:19.00 USD Estimated At:75.00 - 100.00 USD
Group of Miscellaneous Civil War Content Letters
<B>Group of Miscellaneous Civil War Content Letters</B></I> including a four-page letter congratulatory letter from John Sturgis, New York, dated May 26, 1863, to Major General N. P. Banks, Commanding Gulf Department, New Orleans, “<I>I look upon your arrangements for employing the negroes as most happy, and likely to solve the whole problem as to what can be done with the slaves when freed, as freed they will be before this war is ended</B></I>”, with the usual fold creases, else clear and near fine; a four-page letter dated April 1, 1864 from a Massachusetts soldier to a friend with a reference to General Grant “<I>General Grant thinks more of this rebellion…than he does of running himself into the presidency chair</B></I>”, with the usual fold creases, including the original stamped envelope, very good; and an autograph endorsement on application of Fitz John Porter for a reconsideration of his case referred by the President to the Secretary of War, with added date of September 13, 1887, with the usual folds, else very good. <I>Ex. Henry E. Luhrs Collection.</B></I> <BR><BR><b>Shipping:</b> Flat Material, Small (<a target="_blank" href="http://www.heritageauctions.com/common/shipping.php">view shipping information</a>)
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