FL SEMINOLE INDIAN/MEXICAN/CIVIL WAR OCCUP TEXAS GENERAL COLONEL LETTER SIGNED !

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Here’s A US Army ALS by
JAMES LOWRY DONALDSON
(1814 - 1885)
CIVIL WAR WEST POINT BATTLE OF NASHVILLE UNION BVT BRIGADIER and MAJOR GENERAL
&
INDIAN WARS REGULAR ARMY COLONEL!
Donaldson was a career officer in the United States Army serving from 1836 to 1869. In addition to the Civil War, Donaldson served in the Florida Second Seminole War, military occupation of Texas, and the Mexican War. He was Chief Quartermaster of the Department of New Mexico from 1858 to 1862, and later of the Department of the Cumberland.
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HERE’S AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY DONALDSON ON ATTRACTIVE “
HEAD QUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI
” LETTERHEAD, 1p., DATED AT ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, FEBY 2, 1868, and WRITTEN
TO
HENRY MARTIN CIST
(1839 – 1902)
CIVIL WAR BVT BRIGADIER GENERAL FOR HEROICS AT THE BATTLE OF STONE RIVER AND CHICKAMAUGA,
ADJUTANT OF THE 74
th
OHIO INFANTRY and POST-ADJUTANT OF CAMP CHASE DURING THE CONFINEMENT OF PRISONERS CAPTURED AT FORT DONELSON
&
CIVIL WAR AUTHOR OF NUMEROUS WORKS, INCLUDING THE CLASSIC
1882 FIRST-PERSON BOOK TITLED, “
THE
ARMY OF THE CUMBERLAND
.”
IN THIS LETTER, DONALDSON DECLINES CIST’S INVITATION TO A REUNION.
IN PART:
“…sorry to inform you that pressing official business here will prevent me from attending the meeting of the Army of the Cumberland which I regret Exceedingly…”
NOTE:
The Army of the Cumberland was one of the principal Union Armies in the Western Theater of the Civil War, seeing action at the battles of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Gettysburg, and Nashville.
In the post-bellum years officers of the Army of the Cumberland formed a society for those men who served in its ranks.
Cist was extremely active in the organization, acting as its Corresponding Secretary for years.
The document measures 8” x 10” and is in very good condition.
A RARE ADDITION TO YOUR
CIVIL WAR
“GENERALS IN BLUE”
AUTOGRAPH, MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERA COLLECTION!
BIOGRAPHY OF GENERAL JAMES L. DONALDSON
James Lowry Donaldson
(March 17, 1814 – November 4, 1885) was an American soldier and author. He served as a general in the
Union Army
during the
American Civil War
and was noted for his proficiency in military logistics.
Biography
Donaldson was born in
Baltimore, Maryland
, to James Donaldson Lowry and Mary Purviance Cox within a prominent Baltimore family. His father was a practicing attorney in Baltimore City, a member of the House of Delegates in Annapolis, and the first fallen officer at the Battle of North Point during the War of 1812. On September 1, 1832, he was appointed from
Maryland
to the
United States Military Academy
, graduating in 1836.
Brevetted
a
second lieutenant
in the 3rd U.S. Artillery, he was sent to the West on garrison duty, where his profiency in logistics and supply management was first noted.
He later served with distinction as a
first lieutenant
in the
Second Seminole War
in Florida and then in the 1st U.S. Artillery during the
Mexican-American War
, where he was distinguished at the
Battle of Buena Vista
. Promoted to
Major (United States)
for gallantry in action, he then served in a variety of
frontier
outposts, including as the
quartermaster
at the military camp on Pawneee Fork in
Kansas
from 1859–60. He led a wagon train of supplies through hostile Indian country into
New Mexico Territory
.
When the Civil War erupted, Donaldson was the Chief Quartermaster for the Department of New Mexico at
Fort Union
until the fall of 1862, when he was reassigned to the same post for the Middle Military Department in Baltimore. In mid-1863, after the
Gettysburg Campaign
, he was reassigned to the
Western Theater
. Serving under his former West Point classmate,
Montgomery C. Meigs
, Colonel Donaldson was Chief Quartermaster of the Department of the Cumberland. He organized the men of his quartermasters organization into a combat unit and served in the
Battle of Nashville
.
He was promoted to
brigadier general
and Chief Quartermaster of the Military Division of Tennessee. Donaldson efficiently and effectively managed the huge supply bases that served the armies of
Ulysses S. Grant
,
William T. Sherman
,
George H. Thomas
and received their commendations in official reports.
At the war's close, Donaldson was brevetted a
major general
in the
regular army
.
Donaldson retired from active service in 1869 and formally resigned from the army on January 1, 1874. He wrote
Sergeant Atkins
(1871), a tale of the Florida War.
A stained glass window, "The Roman Centurion," in the Grace and St. Peters Church in Baltimore memorializes James Lowry Donaldson.
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