(CIVIL WAR) SCOTT WINFIELD Autograph Letter Signed

Sale 2058 - Lot 46

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(CIVIL WAR.) SCOTT, WINFIELD. Autograph Letter Signed, to Francis Amasa Walker, "Having injured my arm I write with pain & shall reply to no application for my autograph after the present month." 1 page, single 8vo sheet; mounted to a page from an autograph album, browning. New York, 26 June 1855

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Scott (1786-1866) famed American military leader, served in the War of 1812, oversaw the removal of Indians on the Trail of Tears, fought in the Second Seminole War, commanded the Southern theatre during the Mexican War, promoted to Lieutenant General in 1855 -- the first officer to attain that rank since George Washington, named General-in-Chief of the Union army at the start of the Civil War, devised the "Anaconda Plan" to defeat Confederate forces.