SCOTT WINFIELD Autograph Letter Signed

Sale 2177 - Lot 41

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600

SCOTT, WINFIELD. Autograph Letter Signed, to California Bishop William Ingraham Kip, requesting that he send the enclosed [not present] notes to General [Ethan Allen] Hitchcock, adding that he writes in pain. 1 page, small 8vo; some fading to text but signature is clear, folds. New York, 27 November 1853

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Scott (1786-1866) was a famed American military leader, served in the War of 1812, oversaw the removal of Indians on the Trail of Tears, fought in the Second Seminole War, commanded the Southern theatre during the Mexican War, was promoted to Lieutenant General in 1855--the first officer to attain that rank since George Washington--named General-in-Chief of the Union army at the start of the Civil War, and devised the "Anaconda Plan" to defeat Confederate forces.