(CIVIL WAR) SHERMAN WILLIAM T Autograph Letter Signed

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(CIVIL WAR.) SHERMAN, WILLIAM T. Autograph Letter Signed, to General George W. Mindil, recalling how New Jersey regiments under Mindil saved him from defeat against Confederate cavalry forces in Mississippi. 21/2 pages, folded 8vo sheet, Headquarters Army of the United States stationery; separated along gutter fold, the second leaf mounted to a stiff sheet. Washington, 15 May 1874

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". . . I recall the New Jersey regiment that went with me to Meridian which stood by the wagon train at Decatur Miss. so well against an attack of Armstrong's Division of Cavalry and in my opinion saved me personally, for I was actually surrounded by cavalry . . . I would have fallen ingloriously a prisoner in the Land of the Rivers . . ."