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Lot 5385

Benjamin, Judah P., Confederate Secretary of War

8 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
San Francisco

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Benjamin, Judah P., Confederate Secretary of War

Comprising three holographic letters by a secretary, Feb. 8-18, 1862, eight pages folio. Including: 1) Feb. 8 to General Braxton Bragg, he urges the general to ...send to Knoxville all the troops you can spare...Gen'l A.S. Johnston is so heavily out numbered that it is scarcely possible for him to maintain his whole line...We have ordered to his aid four regiments from Virginia and 5,000 men from N.C... 2) Feb 8th, to General Albert Sydney Johnston, noting his outnumbered situation and detailing five orders issued that day; ...1st. We have ordered to Knoxsville 3 Tenn. regiments...The Georgia Regiment and 4 regiments from Gen'l Bragg's command... 3) Feb. 18th, to General Bragg, The heavy blow which has been inflicted on us by the recent operations in Kentucky and Tennessee renders necessary a change in our whole plan of campaign...I am still without any satisfactory information from Gen.; A.S. Johnston. I know not the nature nor extent of the disaster at Fort Donelson...withdraw your forces from Pensacola and Mobile, and hasten to the defense of the Tennessee Line...
Condition: Some age toning.
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Provenance: Philip D. and Elsie O. Sang Collection, sold Sotheby-Park Bernet, Dec. 4, 1981.

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