July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
GORGAS, Josiah (1818-1883) General of Ordnance of the Confederate Army and responsible for shipping all the ammunition to soldiers at the front. War-date Confederate Letter Signed, by Josiah Gorgas, as Major & Chief of Ordnance, 1pp. quarto, Confederate States of America, War Department, Ordnance Office lettersheet, Richmond, Virginia, July 21, 1861, addressed to General Foster in Atlanta, and reads in part: "...I have received your letter...and in reply would say that you may ratify the contract with Harris & Thrasher at $4.75. They must be cautioned however as to the quality of the articles furnished. The sample they exhibited here was the very best we had then seen and made me anxious to get accoutrements of them. I think the shoulder belts cost us here from 70 to 75 cents....You may extend your contracts in Georgia if you can do so, on favorable terms to One hundred thousand sets, including knapsacks, to be delivered within six months..." Fine. Nice war-date autograph of a Confederate hero who after the war served as Superintendent of the Briarfield iron works in Alabama, taught and served as Vice-Chancellor of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee and served as President of the University of Alabama.
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