?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
"THE BLACK TROOPS THERE HAVE BECOME MUCH INCENSED" (CIVIL WAR.) SHERIDAN, PHILIP H. Letter Signed, "P.H. Sheridan," to J.G. Foster, Commanding General, Department of Florida, informing him that "I was obliged under orders from Genl Grant to order the muster out of one thousand more of your colored troops," and of the "fuss and feathers over on the Rio Grande," because "[t]he black troops over there have become much incensed at the Franco Mexicans in consequence of the abuse of them in a paper published in Matamoras so that we have to watch them closely." 2 pages, 4to, with integral blank leaf, written on recto and verso of first leaf, Headquarters stationery; docketed on terminal page, minor soiling. New Orleans, 23 January 1866
