Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 15,600
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Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
VALLEY FORGE AND THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH GREENE, NATHANAEL. Autograph Letter Signed, "NGreene," as Major General, to Brigadier General George Weedon, describing his ordeal as the army's Quartermaster General at Valley Forge and the subsequent march to New York, and wishing Weedon well in his post-army life. 1 page, 15 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches, with integral address leaf; short closed vertical tear through signature, worn at edges with several short tears at bottom edges of each leaf and slight loss of text, small archival tape repair to lower inside corner. "Camp on the White Plains" [NY], 25 July 1778
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"I had a most terrible time of it through the Jerseys, not a soul to assist me except the Brigade Q Masters until after the Battle of Monmouth. . . . Pray what are the people's opinions of the transactions of that day? General Lee was rather unfortunate." Charles Lee had given a disastrous performance at Monmouth, for which he was court-martialed and stripped of his command; Greene soon took his place as Washington's top general.
Weedon had recently resigned his command in a dispute over seniority. Greene was too preoccupied at the time to give Weedon a proper farewell, but here reconnects with his old comrade: "The prodigeous quantity of business I had upon my hands and the great hurry in which we left the Valley Forge deprived me of the opportunity of takeing formal leave of you. . . . You know I esteem and regard you as an officer and a gentleman, and that is sufficent without being formally attentive to all the rules of politeness." Published in Papers of Nathanael Greene, II:472-3.