May 12, 2005 - Sale 2043

Sale 2043 - Lot 58

Price Realized: $ 1,725
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CIVIL WAR.) HANCOCK, WINFIELD SCOTT. Autograph Letter Signed, to an unnamed tailor, ordering a new uniform but advising not to sew on the buttons until he telegraphs as he has been promoted to Major General but does not have "sufficient authority to don the ornaments of that grade." 1 page, folded 8vo sheet; docketing note written recto in the middle of the text ("Arrived Jany 20 / 63"). Falsmouth, VA, 29 December 1862