Property from the Estate of
HUGH BULLOCK
GRANT, ULYSSES S., President. Autograph letter signed ("U.S. Grant") as General in Chief of the Armies of the United States, TO MAJOR GENERAL AMBROSE EVERETT BURNSIDE, [near Spotsylvania], 9 May 1864. 1 page, 8vo, "Headquarters Armies of the United States, 1:15 P.M.," extreme right margin slightly browned, otherwise in fine condition.
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GRANT, ULYSSES S., President. Autograph letter signed ("U.S. Grant") as General in Chief of the Armies of the United States, TO MAJOR GENERAL AMBROSE EVERETT BURNSIDE, [near Spotsylvania], 9 May 1864. 1 page, 8vo, "Headquarters Armies of the United States, 1:15 P.M.," extreme right margin slightly browned, otherwise in fine condition.
GRANT TO BURNSIDE, ON DAY TWO AT SPOTSYLVANIA
A fine wartime dispatch at the early stages of the bloody but inconclusive fighting at Spotsylvania. Grant writes: "I hear Artillery firing in the direction of [Brigadier General Theodore Burr] Gates. I think it will be advisable for you to go there and take general charge in person..."
After Grant's major offensive, launched through the Wilderness on 5 May, resulted in a stalemate, he shifted the Union forces south and east in hopes of turning Lee's right flank and getting between him and Richmond. The road junction at Spotsylvania Court House became the focal point of this thrust and Lee's forces, which arrived there just ahead of Grant, fortified the area around the Court House on 8 May. Burnside, commanding the Union IX Corps, was stationed on Grant's left flank, facing Confederate forces under Early. The present letter was written on the second day of fighting in this long and bloody campaign. It was not until 20 May that Grant, having failed to dislodge Lee, regrouped and tried another flanking movement.
GRANT TO BURNSIDE, ON DAY TWO AT SPOTSYLVANIA
A fine wartime dispatch at the early stages of the bloody but inconclusive fighting at Spotsylvania. Grant writes: "I hear Artillery firing in the direction of [Brigadier General Theodore Burr] Gates. I think it will be advisable for you to go there and take general charge in person..."
After Grant's major offensive, launched through the Wilderness on 5 May, resulted in a stalemate, he shifted the Union forces south and east in hopes of turning Lee's right flank and getting between him and Richmond. The road junction at Spotsylvania Court House became the focal point of this thrust and Lee's forces, which arrived there just ahead of Grant, fortified the area around the Court House on 8 May. Burnside, commanding the Union IX Corps, was stationed on Grant's left flank, facing Confederate forces under Early. The present letter was written on the second day of fighting in this long and bloody campaign. It was not until 20 May that Grant, having failed to dislodge Lee, regrouped and tried another flanking movement.