Auction Date:2011 Oct 12 @ 18:00 (UTC-5 : 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
Rare war-dated ALS signed as Confederate president, “Jeffn Davis,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, April 19, 1861. Letter to “Hon. G. A. Henry.” in full: “Thanks for your friendly and patriotic letter of the 16th inst which I have just received. Your recommendation of Col. D Bell of Ky has been referred to the Secretary of War for his respectful consideration. It gave me sincere pleasure to be greeted by you with the warmth and friendship of our earlier days. As ever truly yr friend.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, scattered irregular toning and soiling, small tape reinforcement along reverse of top edge, and a couple pinholes of paper loss to intersection of folds.
Signed a week after Fort Sumter, the newly named president of the Confederacy was still in the midst of building his military and strengthening the rebellion’s cause when he received a recommendation of a Kentucky colonel for a military appointment. Raising troops was one of his many top priorities the first week of the conflict, and when President Abraham Lincoln sent out the call for more Union troops to squelch the Confederacy, Davis responded with his own battle cry—one heeded the very next day by one of the greatest military generals all time, Robert E. Lee, who resigned his commission in the US Army to join the Army of Virginia. The original recipient of this correspondence, Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Sr., was a law school classmate of Davis who served in the Confederate Congress during the war. His friendship with President Davis made him among the most influential lawmakers in the Confederate government. Among Davis’ earliest pieces of correspondence as the leader of the Confederacy prepared to arm his followers for the bloody years to come.
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