Raynors HCA 2020-02
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/27/2020
A good war-date Union officer's letter, 2pp. 4to., written by Capt. Richard Cutts Shannon, as assistant adjutant general, "Head Quarters, Draft Rendezvous, Rikers Island, [New York City], Dec. 30, 1863, to General Thomas H. Ruger, in part: "…I shall soon…go before the Ordnance Board for examination for position in that Corps. Capt. Benet advised me to procure all the recommendations possible & it was with such a view that I trouble you. I am anxious to procure something from Genl. Williams, but only being slightly acquainted I hardly feel free to solicit such a favor…recommendations from Genl. Williams & yourself…would be of invaluable service to me in this matter…we are very busy all the time. Our detachments go to Army of Potomac, Department of the Gulf, Dept. of the South, but none to the Department of the Cumberland…possibly they think you have soldiers enough. I have all kinds of office work to do & my clerks number over twenty. We shall soon go into barracks on Hart's Island very near Fort Schuyler further down the Harbor or rather [Long Island] "Sound." The 20th U. S. C. T. is organizing with us under the special patronage & care of the "union League" of New York City. It numbers about 700…R. C. Shannon, Capt. & aag." Shannon attached to the top of the first page two mint three-cent George Washington postage stamps. He did so that Ruger would not have to use his own postage in sending the recommendation, but apparently, he never did since both stamps remain attached to this day. Near fine.
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