Rare Autographs, Manuscripts and Photography
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Valuable (and violent) ALS on verso of accuser's long letter to this fourth-ranking Federal. general (junior only to McClellan, Fremont & Halleck) of October 31, 1864. He refers to "a story being spread that. .. you told him that Gen, then Lieut. McClellan, assisted by Beauregard planned the attack on the City of Mexico ... adopted by a council-of-war, yourself being one of the council." He goes on to accuse Wool of being illicitly involved in securing a " ... contract for building one or more Monitors or other ironclads ... etc." An irate Wool writes on the verso of the letter, "There is not one word of truth in this communication. It is a lie from beginning to the end." After signing his name in full, he adds a p.s., stating, in part, because the writer would not reveal his sources, "There should be no concealment when your country is beset by traitors, liars and forgers." (Comes with fine steel-engraved portrait of Wool.)
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