2023-03 HCA Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 4/7/2023
Newsletter, 1pp, 5" x 8", titled "To the Survivors of Hood's Texas Brigade" and issued by Jerome Bonaparte Robertson as President. In small part "We owe it to all our noble and gallant comrades who have passed ... we owe it to our gallant leaders, General Robert E. Lee and General John B. Hood ..." The newsletter announces the next meeting June 27, 1888. ... plus, Canceled cover addressed to Capt. B.J. Franklin, A Survivor Of Nashville Hoods Texas Brigade and Army of Northern Virginia. The Hood's Texas Brigade Association was founded in 1872 by surviving members of Hood's Texas Brigade of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. It existed until the final meeting, attended by only two veterans, in 1933. Jerome Bonaparte Robertson (1815-1890) was a doctor, Indian fighter, Texas politician, and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was noted for his service in the famed Texas Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia.
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