Sale 1291 — United States Postal History

Sale Date — Tuesday-Wednesday, 25-26 July, 2023

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Category — Civil War Military Mails: Union Military and Govt. Figures

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Sale 1291, Lot 575, Civil War Military Mails: Union Military and Govt. FiguresJames B. McPherson. Union general, killed at the Battle of Atlanta, "Jos. B. McPherson, Maj. Genl." signature on legal-size cover with "Head-Quarters Seventeenth Army Corps, Official Business" imprint to Brig. Gen. James M. Tuttle, Commanding 3rd Division, 15th Corps, Army of Tennessee, Very Fine, General McPherson was killed at the Battle of Atlanta while fighting against the army of his old West Point classmate, John Bell Hood, who paid a warm tribute to his character, he was the second-highest-ranking Union officer killed in action during the war

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