2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
Original Manuscript Poem Signed, " Col. T. Worthington February , 1864", titled "Tis but one hundred thousand men", 2-1/2p. quarto, and is "Inscribed to President Lincoln", it reads in part: "…From Madawaska's icy shore/ To Rio Bravo's burning sands,/ From wild and wide Atlantic roar/ To wild Pacific's golden strand,/ Up, up ye friends of freedom all,/ To drive the vipers from the den/Where pine your friends in famined thrall!/Tis but one hundred thousand men!/…Call out the states of '87/ The first five free from slavery's stain/ To these the glorious boon be given/ To scratch our braves from treason's chain…Ohio." VG. Colonel Thomas Worthington of the 46th Ohio Infantry, was commissioned October 1861 and was court-martialed and cashiered from the Army as the result of a bitter dispute with Gen. Sherman over Sherman's alleged errors at the battle of Shiloh.
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