Apr 12, 2018 - Sale 2473

Sale 2473 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 715
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(ARMY.) Mansfield, Joseph K.F. Correspondence regarding stonework for Fort Pulaski in Georgia. 4 Autograph Letters Signed as captain in the United States Army to Henry S. Brainard of Haddam, CT, plus one contract with Brainard also signed by Mansfield; minor wear, two of the letters with complete address panels and inked Savannah postmarks. Georgia and Connecticut, 1843-45
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Joseph King Fenno Mansfield (1803-1862) of Connecticut was a career military officer who later gave his life at Antietam as a Union General in the Civil War. These letters date from his time as a captain in the Corps of Engineers, helping to build Fort Pulaski near Savannah, GA. Brainard agreed to supply "14 stone cut complete according to plan left him (being stone for the bridge way of the demilune of Fort Pulaski)." with--a related letter from Henry Stannard Brainard to Captain Robert E. Lee (the future Confederate general), apologizing for the stains in a recent shipment of stone sent for use at Fort Hamilton, NY, where Lee was post engineer. Retained copy, Haddam, CT, 26 May 1842.