Apr 17, 2012 - Sale 2276

Sale 2276 - Lot 109

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
SCAMMELL, ALEXANDER. Autograph Letter Signed, "Alexr Scammell," as Adjutant General of the Continental Army, to Major General Horatio Gates, introducing Captain John Singer Dexter. 1 page, folio; folds. West Point [NY], 2 November 1779
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Scammell later commanded a regiment at Yorktown, where he was mortally wounded. He was the highest-ranking Continental officer to die during the siege. Provenance: Goodspeed catalogue 156 (1924), item 430.