Auction Date:2010 Jul 14 @ 22:00 (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
ADS, signed “W. T. Sherman, Maj. Gen. Comd.,” one lightly lined page, 7.75 x 9.75, Headquarters, Military Division of the Mississippi letterhead, April 19, 1865. In full: “Major W. F. Haines of Genl Bowens Staff, a paroled officer with a servant & Mule has permission to travel with his horse and personal Baggage to any place within our Lines en route to his home in Missouri.” Faint intersecting folds (moderate wrinkling along the vertical fold) and a hint of mild soiling and handling wear, otherwise fine condition.
Confederate Major Haines served as quartermaster in the First Missouri Regiment. This permission was granted ten days after General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox and two days after Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston, who had still been commanding an active fighting force, surrendered to Sherman. The day of the correspondence coincides with the establishment of a northern boundary of the truce line, while the army commanders negotiated peace terms at Bennett Place. It was an uneasy truce, though, with stragglers and hungry civilians scavenging for food. The farmhouse was the eventual location where Sherman and Johnston signed the surrender papers for Southern armies in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida. At this time, however, Sherman and Johnston were in the process of negotiating peace terms. With Haines’ services as a quartermaster no longer required by the Rebellion, Sherman moved to ensure him safe passage through what was an easy truce, so that he, his servant, and mule, could all safely return to Missouri.
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