2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
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SHERMAN, William T. (1820-1891). Union general famous for his march through Georgia to the sea, accepted the surrender of the last major Confederate force under Johnston. JOHNSTON, Joseph Eggleston (1807-1891) Commanding General, C.S. Army of the Shenandoah, 1861; Commanding General, C.S. Army of the Potomac, 1861-62; Commanding General, C.S. Army of Northern Virginia, 1862; Commanding General, C.S. Army of Tennessee, 1863-64,1865, capitulated to Sherman on April 26, 1865. Nice Sherman/Johnston combination being a free frank "W.T. Sherman" on official Headquarters Army of the United States. ... plus, Clipped signature from a letter, "Yours truly J.E. Johnston". These are matted and framed with a postcard of the Bennett House where Sherman accepted Johnston surrender. Former Confederate Gen. Joseph Eggleston Johnston caught a cold while attending the funeral in New York City for his former Civil War adversary, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, in 1891. A month later, he died in Washington and was buried in a non-military ceremony in Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery.
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