September 22, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/22/2011
War-date Union Document Signed by Christian Thomson Christensen (1832-1905) lieutenant colonel and brevet brigadier general, 1st New York Infantry, 1pp. quarto, on Assistant Quartermaster’s Office, Memphis, Tenn. lettersheet, January 9, 1865, and dateline from New Orleans, being General Orders No. 81, it reads in part: “...Subject to the approval of the President of the U.S. major J[eremiah] B. Cook 3d U.S. Col. Cav is hereby promoted to the Lt. Colonelcy of that Regiment, to date from the 27th of Nov. 1864, in consideration of the gallantry displayed by him on that day, when with his men dismounted, and having nothing but railroad ties for a path, he charged over the Big Black Bridge (near Canton, Miss) in the face of a heavy fire, drove off the Rebels forces stationed on the opposite shore behind a strong stockade and destroyed the birdge by which the main line of the rebel General ‘Hood’s’ communications with his depots in South Mississippi and Alabama were effectually cut off...” Fine condition.
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