47026: Harry Gilmor Confederate Requisition Document Si

Harry Gilmor Confederate Requisition Document Signed "HW Gilmor Capt." One partially printed page, 10" x 6.75", no place; March 28, 1862. A special requisition for "Twenty-five Horse-shoes", requested by Captain William Miller. Signed by Gilmor as issuer of the specified requisition. Countersigned by Turner Ashby as Commander. The requisition is accompanied by a Harry Gilmor Carte de Visite. 2.5" x 4", New York; no date. With an E.& H.T. Anthony backstamp on verso. A standing portrait of Gilmor, dressed in his full cavalry uniform with his saber strapped to his side. Harry W. Gilmor (1838-1883) served as Baltimore City Police Commissioner in the 1870s, but was most noted as a Confederate cavalry officer during the American Civil War. His daring raids through Maryland in the summer of 1864 gained him partisans fame as "Gilmor's Raiders." After the war he wrote Four Years in the Saddle (1866), chronicling his war memoirs. Turner Ashby (1828-1862) served under Stonewall Jackson as commander of the 7th Virginia Cavalry. He would receive his Brigadier's star on May 23, 1862, but met an untimely death on June 6, 1862, at the Battle of Good's Farm. Condition: The requisition form is moderately toned throughout, with flattened folds. The bottom margin has been clipped, resulting in some loss of text and writing. Gilmor's signature has smudging to the end. The carte de visite is lightly toned at the edges, with minor foxing throughout. Pencil notation on verso. HID03101062020 © 2020 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved