Lot 1081
Meade, George G., U.S. Army officer and civil engineer involved in coastal construction including several lighthouses; Civil War Union general, rising from command of a brigade to the Army of the Potomac; best known for defeating General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg (1863)..
Autograph Letter Signed, April 4, 1864, with printed heading "Head-Quarters, Army of the Potomac;" the general replying to a request for an autograph to be sold at the Great Central Sanitary Fair later that year in Philadelphia. Obtained by William Struthers and donated, it was priced at $2 and also contained a carte-de-visite. Though the photograph no longer remains, this letter still resides in the original Sanitary Fair folder it was sold in, with the name of the donor written on the front. The folder, printed by Henry Ashmead, who also published A Priced Catalogue of Autographs… For Sale at The Great Central Fair, is in a remarkable state of preservation, kept in the family until sold by Catherine Barnes more than a century later. Very Fine and choice.
Estimate $500 - 750
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| Realized $800 |
