Apr 21, 2011 - Sale 2244

Sale 2244 - Lot 14

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
HANCOCK, WINFIELD SCOTT. Autograph Letter Signed, "Winf'd S. Hancock / Major General," to Judge Josiah Gardner Abbott ("My Dear Sir"), promising to recommend that Abbot's deceased son be given a higher military rank. 2 pages, 8vo, with integral blank, ruled paper. "Fort Leavenworth," 20 Jan[uar]y 1867
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". . . I have always considered that Major Henry L Abbott's men are of the best and bravest soldiery I ever knew . . . .
"I considered that a Brevet of Colonel would be more just than that of Lieut Colonel; and if I can recall that he ever commanded a Brigade, I shall recommend him for a Brevet of Brigadier General. . . ."
Henry Livermore Abbott (1842-1864) was a Union major when he was killed in battle after having fought in several Civil War engagements, including the battles of Gettysburg and Fredericksburg. He was posthumously awarded the rank of brevet brigadier general.