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SAXTON, RUFUS

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SAXTON, RUFUS
(1824 - 1908) Union brigadier general who won a Medal of Honor for his defense of Harper's Ferry, also instrumental in the enlistment and organization of blacks into the federal army. A great Andersonville related A.L.S. ""R. Saxton"" adding rank on Quartermaster's Department letterhead, 4pp. 4to., Fort Leavenworth, Aug. 28, 1876 to Attorney General Alonzo Taft, in part: ""àwith regard to the claim of B.B. Dykes for the use and occupation of certain real estate at Andersonville, Ga...I had general charge of the Andersonville Cemetery. I had during this time several interviews with Dykes with regard to the landàthere was no such use made of his property, as he claims in the accountàhe offered to deed the whole tract to the government for three thousand dollars. If he had charged for every stick of timber used by the Confederate government to build the prison pen where thousands of our soldiers died it could have then accounted only to a small percentage of this exorbitant claimà"". An interesting Andersonville claim, also endorsed by MONTGOMERY MEIGS (1816-1892). Slight stain to Saxton's signature, else near fine.