2020-09 Putnal
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/26/2020
Rare Confederate General's reluctant approval to allow a future general to leave his command. Senior Confederate General JOHN BUCHANAN FLOYD (1806-1863) who will (in days) assume command of Fort Donelson and then (run away) to avoid capture, pens the following four-line endorsement allowing future general Henry B. Davidson to leave his command, reading, in full: "I comply with this, the second application, of Major Davidson however much I regret to part with him. JOHN B. FLOYD, Brigade Genl. Comdg. Feby. 2nd 1862." This at the bottom of Major Henry B. Davidson's, 1p. 4to., request, Russellville, Ky., Feb. 2, 1862, reads, in part: "I have the honor to request that I be relieved from duty with this division-there being two a. a. Genl. present my services can be disposed with. I have the honor to be. Very respectfully, H. B. Davidson, Maj. & a. a. Genl." Minor toning and folds, else VG.
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