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Lot 93
Sale 2337 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Apr 28, 2020
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$1,000 -
1,500
Price Realized
$1,250
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Group of Civil War military commander and official autographs most 1861-1864
Including signed letter from Union General Robert Anderson (1805-1871) dated December 26, 1861, declining an invitation from Charles Macalester; a cut autograph from Confederate General Pierre G.T. Beauregard (1818-1893), dated 1864, Petersburg, Virginia; autograph of Confederate Cavalry General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee (1837-1891); autograph of Confederate Jefferson Davis(1808-1889) undated; together with an autograph of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). .
7 3/4 in. x 3 1/2 in. (Jefferson Davis sheet)