LEE ROBERT E Partly printed vellum Document Signed RELee as

Sale 2413 - Lot 14

Price Realized: $ 4,750

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

Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000

LEE SIGNS WEST POINT DIPLOMA FOR CADET LEE, ROBERT E. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, "RELee", as Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, graduation diploma for Nelson Bowman Sweitzer. Countersigned by 10 instructors, including Dennis Hart Mahan, George Washington Cullem, and George H. Thomas. 24 1/2x21 inches; moderate fading to Lee signature (but still legible), deep folds, minor cockling at upper left. West Point, 17 June 1853

Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

with--Simon Cameron. Partly-printed Letter Signed, as Secretary of War, to Nelson B. Sweitzer, appointing him Aide-de-Camp to General George B. McClellan. 1 page, 4to, "War Department" stationery, with integral blank; offsetting, cello tape repairs at horizontal folds verso with moderate bleedthough. Washington, 28 September 1861 Nelson B. Sweitzer. Cabinet card photograph, unsigned, 1/2-length portrait by Taber, showing him in uniform. 7 1/2x5 inches (image), 8 1/2x5 1/4 inches overall; some scattered foxing.
Nelson Bowman Sweitzer (1828-1898) commanded the 16th NY Cavalry when he assigned to Lieutenant Edward P. Doherty and a battalion of his regiment the task of pursuing the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth.