Apr 11, 2002 - Sale 1930

Sale 1930 - Lot 34

Price Realized: $ 230
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
(CIVIL WAR.) RUGGLES, DANIEL. Autograph Document Signed, 4 times, a true copy of a letter to General Anderson, the original written the day before the Battle of Shiloh, ordering ambulances and ammunition. 1 page, folded 4to sheet, docketed on address leaf; written in purple ink, stained. Fredericksburg, 2 August 1879

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Ruggles (1810-97) Confederate Brigadier General, fought with distinction at Corinth, Shiloh and the Battle of Baton Rouge, in command at Port Hudson, commanded the first military district in Mississippi, fought numerous battles in the weeks preceding the fall of Vicksburg.<