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
Appointed a brigadier general when the Civil War broke out, Jackson (1824–1863) organized a brigade of Virginians who fought at the first Battle of Bull Run. It was there that the unit was described as standing its ground like a ‘stone wall,’ and the name forever became attached to Jackson. Hours after victories at Fredricksburg and Chancellorsville, Jackson was accidentally shot by one of his own men and died eight days later. War-dated ALS signed “T. J. Jackson, Maj Genl,” one page, lightly-lined, 7.25 x 9.5, April 20, 1862. Letter written from “Conrad Store near Swift Run Gap, 2:20p.m.,” to General Richard S. Ewell. In full: “Since writing my dispatch this morning I have received another one from you. The position I wish you to encamp at tomorrow evening (Monday) is at the intersection of the road from orange C.H. to Stannardsville with the road from Gordonsville to Madison C.H. This will place you within two days march of either Swift Run Gap or Fisherville Gap. You had better have five days rations with you. At last accounts the enemy had not entered Harrisonburg. The move in Fredricksburg was probably designed to prevent reinforcements being sent to me.”
At the upper portion of the reverse, written and signed for Ewell in a secretarial hand is a message that reads, “more than that as I believe from Fishers Gap and as my teams & c & c will be kept in better order I would recommend that I be left at G until the time you decide my movements either to F. Gap or Swift R Gap—In addition the road from the point you designate to Stannardsville is represented as very bad at this time, nearly impassable. Please let me hear from you at G as soon as possible. I cannot possibly move before tomorrow.”
On the lower portion of the reverse, Ewell writes a response to Jackson, signed “R. S. Ewell,” and reads, in full: “One element in the above p is that I go to the R R should I recalled towards R[ichmond], I will send another express this afternoon from G[ordonsville] & leave one at Stannardsville…manner from G. to M.C.H. [Madison Court House] 20 miles thence to F. Gap 15 or 16.”
In very good condition, with intersecting folds, Jackson’s writing and signature a shade or two light but completely legible, some light show-through from writing on reverse, and light notations to top border.
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign showed off Jackson's genius as a tactician as he was able to tie up 60,000 Union troops with a far smaller force. On April 18, Jackson dispatched the above instructions by courier to Ewell in order to join The Army of Virginia near Blue Ridge after a previously missed encounter. As Ewell repositioned his troops, the general marched his troops near Conrad's Store, establishing his headquarters for four escape routes, allowing for easy troop movements as he planned his next strike. On April 30, Jackson headed for Port Royal and Ewell crossed Swift Run Gap to the general's former campsite, leading the Union army to believe he was still encamped at Conrad's Store, but on May 8, Jackson mysteriously appeared at McDowell, striking the Union forces hard, preventing Fremont's army from joining Banks’ troops, and resulting in Jackson's first victory of the Shenandoah campaign. Historically significant and autographically rare original tactical orders from one of the South's greatest generals.
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