Early War-Date JEB Stuart Staff Officer Letter

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COOKE, John Esten (1830-1886) (1830-1886) Sergeant in the Richmond Howitzers at the beginning of the war, volunteer ADC to Stuart and later Stuart's AAIG plus a famous novelist who also wrote popular early biographies of Lee and Jackson.Autograph Letter Signed, "Jno. Esten Cooke" 1p. octavo, Richmond, April 17, 1861, and reads " I shall esteem it a favor, if you will send me one or two copies of the last No. of the Art Journal, containing the last of my sketches…" Fine.

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