KERSHAW JOSEPH B Letter Signed

Sale 1912 - Lot 59

Price Realized: $ 3,450

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000

ENDORSED BY LONGSTREET AND BEAUREGARD<\t>KERSHAW, JOSEPH B. Letter Signed, "J. B. Kershaw," as Brigadier General, to General S. Cooper, forwarding a letter [present] from the commanders of Kershaw's Brigade requesting that they be transferred to less active duty on the South Carolina coast, discussing the difficulty in recruiting, and reluctantly recommending that his brigade be exchanged for General Hagood's. With Autograph Endorsements Signed on verso by Longstreet and Beauregard. 2 pages, plus the page of endorsements and the 6-page inclosure signed by the 6 regimental commanders of the Brigade and with a lengthy Autograph Endorsement Signed on verso by Colonel James D. Nance. 4to sheets; usual folds, tape repairs with resulting staining, the text of the enclosure faded.<\t>near Russelville, TN, 12 January 1864

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". . . In making this recommendation I desire to say I do so in violation of every feeling of my heart except the single one of devotion to the war worn Regiment to which I am indebted for the position I hold and for whatever of reputation I may have made in the service of my country . . . I had cherished the proud hope that I would be permitted to the last to coninue to meet the enemy upon the outer borders of the country . . ."<