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(CIVILWAR.) BUTLER, BENJAMIN F. Autograph Quotation dated and Signed,
“Benj. F Butler”: “We are puppets all; man / in his pride, / and beauty fair in her flower, /
Ever moved by an unseen / hand at a game” [paraphrase of lines from Tennyson’s “Maud”].
(MRS)
Lowell, 26 May 1863
[400/600]
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Carte-de-visite photograph,
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“REPORTS OFTHE LASTWAR . . .WILL MAKE A BOOK ON
STRATEGY MOSTVALUABLE”
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(CIVIL WAR.) SHERMAN, WILLIAM TECUMSEH. Autograph Letter Signed,
“W.T. Sherman / MajGenl,” to “Dear Lippitt” [Francis J. Lippitt?], declining to endorse his
book, but suggesting that the Congressional report of the War would provide him with
excellent examples of interest to both civilians and the military [
War of the Rebellion: Official
Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
, 1880]. 2 pages, 4to, with integral blank, written
on first and second pages, “Head Quarters Military Division of the Mississippi” stationery,
ruled paper; folds.
St. Louis, 2 November 1865
[800/1,200]
“
. . . I did . . . partially examine the bo[o]ks sent me but I would not be willing to express . . .
an endorsement.The book like all others of which very many are sent to me must work its way
into fame by its intrinsic merit and I think after the publication by Congress of the Official
Reports of the last war you can combine your learning with the experience gained & illustrate it
by recent & modern examples, which will make a Book on strategy most valuable & interesting
not only to the General Readers, but to the military. I must abstain from giving my name . . . . But I
will on all occasions express to you and others the interest I feel in the General subject. Officers
in whom I have a personal interest, who have grown up under my eye & instruction are rapidly
turning their swords into pens and all ask my aid, so that to give one & not another the
endorsement of my name & opinion would be construed with partiality. . . . I hope you will be
content with the expression of my general approval of your efforts.”
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