Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 209

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
HANCOCK, WINFIELD SCOTT. Letter Signed, "Winf'd S. Hancock," to Edward G.W. Butler, reporting that he has forwarded to the Freedmen's Bureau his letter concerning his problems with the "negro element" and with laborers following a crop failure. 2 pages, 4to, "Headquarters Fifth Military District" stationery, ruled paper, with integral blank; faint scattered dampstaining. With the original envelope. (AKF) New Orleans, 30 December 1867
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"Referring to the subject of the negro element of your vicinage, and to the embarassments you experienced in consequence of the failure of crops . . . my attention has already been occupied with this subject, and that I have referred your letter . . . to the Commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau . . . ."