Raynors HCA 2018-03
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/15/2018
GORDON, George Henry (1823-1886) was an American lawyer and a Union general in the American Civil War. War-date Union general Autograph Letter Signed “Geo. H. Gordan, Brig. Genl. Comdg Folly Island” 2pp. quarto, Folly Island, South Carolina, August 26, 1864, addressed to Senator Henry Wilson an ardant anti-slavery politician, and reads in part: “...Can you not make inquiry into military matters in this Dept., one of enormous cost and no return - more than half a million a day, it is computed will hardly cover expenses. Since May 1864, we have simply gained Morris Island...Gillmore’s operations have not rendered the taking of the city of Charleston, possibly Charleston can be taken by Grant better than by Gillmore. Sumter is stronger than ever. Our shells do no material injury to Charleston. We have only gained the pieces to help the navy maintain the blockade. For this, Gillmore’s work has cost the Govt. more than one hundred and twenty millions of dollars...Let colored troops garrison such points as it is desirable to hold. Leave a small garrison in Morris Island, and then send from here more than twenty thousand good white troops (veterans) to Grant or Meade. We have seen that united are better than divided forces. Either send someone’s large army here to force an entrance within the main, or send this force to someone to do something else...” Fine condition.
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