Auction Date:2010 May 12 @ 10:00 (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
War-dated ALS signed “R. E. Lee,” one page, lightly-lined, 8 x 10, April 2, 1864. Letter addressed to Miss Fannie in Churchill. In full: “I am very much obliged to you for your kind present & beg to return my thanks for your remembrance of me. It will give me great pleasure to visit you in Augusta when in my power & hope that the savages of war may spare your hospitable home. Please present my kind regards to our mother & Sisters …” In very good condition, with scattered light toning (heaviest along the intersecting folds), some show-through from old tape repairs on reverse of folds, and some scattered light creasing and wrinkling.
As in any war, Lee knew that civilians such as Miss Fannie and her family were at risk. Perhaps that inevitability of combat was on his mind while writing this letter. Lee had an inkling that Union forces were planning a major offensive around this time, and he was right, as Union general Ulysses S. Grant was completing plans for a big push in Northern Virginia. Lee and his sixth sense knew there’d be little he could do preemptively. All that could be done was to wait for the inevitable while preparing his defense. Months later, in November, William T. Sherman launched his famed March to the Sea across Georgia, bringing with him “the savages of war” and endangering more property and lives—soldiers and civilians alike—among them the residence once visited by the general, as well as countless others. Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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