May 12, 2005 - Sale 2043

Sale 2043 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 345
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CIVIL WAR.) HALLECK, HENRY W. Autograph Endorsement Signed, forwarding an item [not present] to Ulysses S. Grant, concerning the parole of Confederate General Bushrod Rust Johnson, with an Endorsement Signed on verso by Charles A. Dana. Approximately 71/2x3 inches, presumably clipped from a larger sheet. Vp, May 1865

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Halleck (1815-72) Union General, commanded the Department of Missouri, appointed General in Chief of the U. S. Army in 1862 but replaced by Grant in 1864, served as Chief of Staff of the Army until the end of the war.