Nov 07, 2017 - Sale 2461

Sale 2461 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,500 - $ 5,000
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 George Bell. Countersigned by 10 instructors, including Robert S. Garnett, George H. Thomas, Dennis Hart Mahan, George Washington Cullem, and Robert Walter Weir. 25x21 inches; moderate fading to Lee signature (but still legible), few tiny worming holes at folds, faint scattered staining. West Point, 17 June 1853

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George Bell (1828-1907) served as a commissary officer throughout the Civil War, at the end of which he was brevetted brigadier general.