Oct 26, 2023 - Sale 2650

Sale 2650 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
PREPARING FOR THE CHATTANOOGA CAMPAIGN (CIVIL WAR.) THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY. Autograph Letter Signed, "Geo. H. Thomas / Maj Gen'l army[?] / c[u]m[berland?]," to Chief Quartermaster Colonel Andrew Jackson Mackay ("Col Mackay"), requesting rations, forage, and clothing, and indicating where supply boats are to land. 1 page, 8vo, "Head-Quarters Department of the Cumberland" stationery; inlaid, few short closed separations at folds, crease through signature (with very minor loss), faint dampstain at lower left, moderate marginal discoloration from prior matting. Chattanooga, 1 November 1863
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"The Point Rock will leave Bridgeport this day at 12 . . . laden with rations & forage. Send down an order for her to land at Kelly's ferry, else she will come up to Brown's ferry where there are no conveniences for unloading. Give orders also that the Boats will continue to stop at Kelly's ferry until further orders. Thirty nine thousand rations of forage are at Kelly's ferry now. Get up a due proportion of subsistence & forage as rapidly as possible, also clothing for the men."
On October 19, 1863, after Union General William Rosecrans was unable to lift Confederate General Braxton Bragg's siege of Chattanooga--a critical supply hub for the Union Army--General Ulysses S. Grant awarded command of the Cumberland Army to George Henry Thomas. In the days before the present letter was written, Grant arrived at Chattanooga to lead the campaign to repel Bragg's army; the first order of business was to open a supply line by taking control of Kelley's Ferry and Brown's Ferry.