May 23, 2013 - Sale 2316

Sale 2316 - Lot 7

Price Realized: $ 2,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CIVIL WAR.) GRANT, ULYSSES S. Autograph Letter Signed, "U.S. Grant / Brig. Gen. Com.," to General John Alexander McClernand, requesting that a unit of cavalry report to Grant. 1 page, 8vo, with integral blank; folds with unobtrusive horizontal one through signature, faint marginal discoloration. Cairo, IL, 22 September 1861
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"Will you please have an officer and six men from the unarmed Cavalry at this post detailed to report to me at 9 am. tomorrow morning.
"I want them for service on this side [of] the river when arms will not be necessary."