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
War-dated ALS signed “W. T. Sherman, Maj Genl Comdg,” one page, 7.75 x 9.75, embossed US letterhead, August 13, 1862. Letter to General James B. McPherson. In part: “Your letter of August 6 is received and I have dispatched a party of fifty Cavalry to Germantown to examine into the condition of that Locomotive prior to sending out a working party to recover it & bring it. I have also designated one of my Staff Major Sanger familiar with Rail Roads to enquire into the Interdiction of Affairs connected with the Railroad here and to report in writing …I find a good many hangers on who claim to be some way or other connected with these Roads. I will ascertain their names & authority & presume all who claim to be in Service must be directly employed by you or some superintendant appointed by you with specific written authority. Copy of which I will claim. The sooner this is systematized, better for all concerned.” In fine condition.
Sherman was the military governor of Memphis when he wrote this letter to McPherson, who would be killed at the Battle of Atlanta in 1864, the second highest ranking Union officer killed during the war and the only commander of a Union army to die in the field. Here Sherman refers to Germantown, Tennessee, and the Memphis-Charleston Railroad, which General Robert E. Lee called "the vertebrae of the Confederacy.” The railroad came under the control of Union forces in April 1862, when General O. M. Mitchell took the rail yards at Huntsville, Alabama. In October, Sherman would be ordered to march eastward from Memphis with his 20,000 men, repairing the Memphis & Charleston as they traveled. Despite Confederate attempts at retaking the line, the South would be deprived of this crucial east-west rail route for the duration of the war.
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