?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(CIVIL WAR.) Burnside, Ambrose E. Hastily scrawled note from the front lines of the Overland Campaign. One sheet, 4 1/2 x 4 inches; torn along top edge touching letterhead, minor foxing, mount remnants on verso not affecting text. [Virginia, early May 1864?]
On recto is a manuscript order from General Winfield Scott Hancock written and signed by Lt. Col. Charles Hale Morgan, which apparently dates from the early days of the Overland Campaign in Virginia, May 1864. The order reads "General Gibbon will at once advance a very strong skirmish line against the enemy supported by two brigades and Gens Barlow and Burnside will conform. I think the enemy are moving or have moved on the Mechanicsville Pike and that they have no intention of attacking your intrenched line in the night. They are not moving in a direction to menace Gen Warren. It will be developed by Gen Gibbon whether they hold strongly or not." On verso is a hastily scrawled signed note by General Ambrose Burnside updating the report: "Since the within was written Gen Griffin reports Ewell & Longstreet on his front and Crittenden's." This document comes from the files of Hancock's adjutant, Francis Amasa Walker.
