2008-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/31/2008
War-date Confederate officer’s Autograph Letter Signed, “M. Grivot”, 2p. octavo, Head Quarters, La, Adjutant Generals Office, New Orleans, January 24, 1862, addressed to Brigadier General Ruggles, and reads “I am instructed by Governor Moore to write you and the officers of your staff, to join here on the Review of the State Troops, on Monday the 27th inst, on Canal Street, in honor of the Anniversary of the Secession of Louisiana at 10 o’clock am. The Governor will meet you at the St. Charles Hotel at 10 oclock am...” VG. Thomas Overton Moore (1804-1876) was elected Democratic governor in November 1859, defeating Thomas Jefferson Wells, and shortly thereafter had the occasion to meet W.T. Sherman, superintendent of the newly created Louisiana Military Academy. He took the oath of office on January 23, 1860. A supporter of John C. Breckinridge in the 1860 election, he ordered U.S. military posts in the state to be seized by state militia on January 10, 1861, as the state convention on secession was sitting. The ordnance of secession passed the convention on January 26, 1861. Moore placed Col. Braxton Bragg in command of the state military, and Louisiana joined the Confederate States of America on March 21, 1861, the sixth state to do so.
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