Auction Date:2012 Mar 14 @ 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
Confederate general (1807–1891) who, when Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861, resigned his commission as a brigadier general in the regular army—the highest-ranking US officer to do so. Initially commissioned as a major general in the Virginia militia, he relieved ‘Stonewall’ Jackson’s command at Harper’s Ferry and organized the Army of the Shenandoah. ALS signed “J. E. Johnston,” one page, lightly-lined, 8 x 10.5, Southern Department, Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company letterhead, January 27, 1871. Letter to James Edmonston. In part: “It gives me great pleasure to receive tidings of you, but I cannot understand why you should suppose my memory so short that you could be forgotten in little more than four years. I am sorry to know that you are not satisfied with your experiment in planting. The more so because it seems to me that insurance is a very uncertain resource. Unless one can obtain from a good company…it is only in the principal towns that those agencies will support the incumbent. In all others the agencies are held by persons who have other businesses to help the proceeds of insurance. If you are disposed to try, we can give the agencies of the Liverpool & London & Globe (fire) Ins. Co., and of the N.Y. Life Ins: Co.” In fine condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of signature, and some scattered light toning and soiling. Accompanied by the original mailing envelope. In 1868 Johnston began acting as an agent for the Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance Company, and within four years had a network of more than 120 agents across the deep South.
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