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Zachary Taylor

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Zachary Taylor

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Auction Date:2018 Aug 08 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:236 Commercial St., Suite 100, Boston, Massachusetts, 02109, 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
LS signed “Z. Taylor Col., 1st Reg't, U.S. Inf'y, Comd'g,” one page, 7.75 x 10, January 21, 1835. Letter to General R. Jones, written from Taylor's headquarters at Fort Crawford. In part: "Since my return to this place from a short leave of absence, your communication of Oct. 2, 1834 was placed in my hands with a Copy of the revised General Regulations, requesting that I would examine the same & suggest any improvements or alterations which might appear to me proper & necessary. After doing so I beg leave to propose a few additions & alterations, which are herewith enclosed & respectfully submitted for consideration: if they, with the reasons as given (in most instances for the same) are not stated in as courteous language, as others would have used on a like occasion, I can only say that not the slight disrespect to any individual was intended; my only object in the proposed changes being the permanency of our military establishment, the promotion of its harmony & to add to its efficiency; all of which I am vain enough to believe would in some measure be effected, were a portion at least, of the suggestions in question, adopted. On the contrary, should those whose duty it is to decide on them, differ with me, I shall be content; as I am not at all tenacious of my opinion as to the matters in question, for, so far as I am individually concerned, I feel note a particle of interest." In fine condition, with professional repairs to small areas of paper loss, and reinforcement to fold splitting via complete silking to both sides.

Fort Crawford was a frontier outpost of the United States Army located in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, seated at the intersection of two of North America's greatest water routes—the Mississippi and Wisconsin Rivers. Taylor commanded the fort from 1829 through 1837, only leaving when he was directed to Florida to participate in the Second Seminole War, where he served with distinction and earned the moniker 'Old Rough and Ready.'