Apr 27, 2006 - Sale 2077

Sale 2077 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 259
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(CIVIL WAR.) BRECKINRIDGE, JOHN C. Autograph Note Signed, written on verso of a telegram to him from N. B. Forrest (but in the hand of a clerk), "Col Palmer's Brigade starts tomorrow morning for Stewarts Creek, to report to you." 2 pages, single 8vo sheet, Southwestern Telegraph Company stationery; browned, both the telegram to Breckinridge and his response are written in pencil and traced over in pen at an early date. sold as is. Murfreesboro, 30 October 1862

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In the telegram to Breckinridge, Forrest gives his location near Nashville and asks for additional infantry.