Auction Date:2013 Dec 11 @ 18:00 (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
Exceptionally rare partly-printed DS as president, one page, 8 x 10, May 18, 1881. Document reads, in full, “I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State to cause the Seal of the United States to be affixed to an envelope containing the letter of recall of Mr. James Longstreet, as Minister Resident of the U.S. at Constantinople, Turkey, dated this day, and signed by me; and for so doing this shall be his warrant.” In fine condition.
Following the Civil War, Longstreet threw his support behind the Republican party—and openly criticized Lee’s actions at Gettysburg—earning him the title of ‘traitor’ to his former Confederate comrades and making it increasingly difficult to hold a political position in the South. After being sent to Turkey in 1880, Longstreet was nominated as Marshal of Georgia by newly inaugurated President Garfield, hoping to end ‘those quarrels which have kept the…departments of government in antagonism’ for the past several years; with Senate’s approval in May of 1881, the former Confederate hero was returned home. Connecting two of the key figures in the crucial Battle of Chickamauga, the greatest Confederate victory in the Western Theater, 16 years after the war’s end, this is a truly remarkable document: no Garfield presidential document with better historical association has ever been offered.
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