Raynors HCA 2018-06
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QUINBY, Isaac Ferdinand 1(821-1891) was a U.S. soldier and Union general during the American Civil War. War-date Letter Signed “ I.F. Quinby” Brigadier General Commanding, 2pp. quarto, Head Quarters 7th Division, 17th Army Corps, Helena, Arkansas, March 18th, 1863, addressed to General Leonard Ross, it reads in part: “....I have just had the pleasure of reading your dispatches of the 7th & 8th insts to Major General Preentiss and congratulated yuou on the success of your expedition thus far, and hope that it may prove an augury of a still greater and final achievement for our cause....Should you effect a landing at Greenwood and find it to be a position that you can hold, you had better remian there until I can get reinforcements to you...I am informed by an officer on a boat this moment from Memphia, that it is currently reported there and believed that the rebels have 25,000 men between Jackson and Grenada to oppose our passage down the Yazoo...” Very good condition. On December 25, 1862, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Ross was arrested by Brigadier General Charles S. Hamilton for refusal to obey Hamilton's order to report by telegraph to Brigadier General Isaac F. Quinby for orders concerning Quinby's wagon train. In a subsequent court-martial, Ross was found guilty and was sentenced to a reprimand from General Ulysses S. Grant. General Grant stated that Ross "was deserving of the serious reprimand" but that he "was not wilfully [sic] guilty of conduct so prejudicial to the service, but acted under the impulse of the moment, and the belief that a wrong was being done to him." Based on Ross' service record, Grant then relieved him from his arrest and returned him to his command. Ross was placed in charge of the Yazoo Pass Expedition against the Confederate fortress of Fort Pemberton guarding Vicksburg from the north. Ross' expedition amounted to little more than an artillery duel against the fort before he decided to abandon the expedition. At roughly the same time, reinforcements under General Quinby arrived, and Quinby convinced Ross to renew the attack. Ross did so with few results and eventually withdrew. Ross resigned his commission on July 22, 1863, in order to look after his personal interests, believing that the war was nearly over.
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