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HENRY B. CARRINGTON

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Militaria Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 200.00 USD
HENRY B. CARRINGTON
(1824 - 1912) Union brigadier general placed in command of the Mountain District, a military department created to include the Powder River country, through which the Bozeman Trail had been forged. When Carrington arrived with the Second Battalion, 18th Infantry, to garrison the new trail, he underestimated Lakota and Cheyenne resistance to the incursion and invasion, and what became known as "Red Cloud's War" began on July 9, 1866, when Carrington marched north of Fort Connor. He also oversaw the disastrous Fetterman Battle, and spent much of the rest of his life trying to salvage his reputation in the wake of that overwhelming defeat. Signed book written by Carrington, Washington the Soldier, Lamson, Wolffe & Co.: New York, 1898, first edition. On the front flyleaf Carrington pens a lengthy inscription, adding: "Born at Wallingford Ct. March 2nd 1824 Dated at Wallingford Ct. July 15, 1900". Light, scattered foxing on the first few pages, else very good.

Estimate: $150 - 200.

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