September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
SEYMOUR, Truman (1824-1891) He was present at the Fort Sumter bombardment in April, 1861, and in early 1862 was promoted to brigadier general, serving in the Army of the Potomac's Fifth Corps during the Peninsula Campaign. Seymour was sent to the Department of the South late in 1862, where he gained notoriety for the unsuccessful and controversial assault on Battery Wagner in July 1863, where he was wounded. Confederate forces captured him at the Wilderness in May 1864, but following exchange he commanded a division in the Sixth Corps during the war's latter stages. Civil War Discharge signed "J. Seymour Brig. Genl." 1p. quarto, Folly Island, South Carolina, February 9, 1864, being a discharge for Elliott Hopkins of John Hamilton's Light Artillery, with original cover to Hopkins. VG.
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