GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885). Autograph letter signed (“U.S. Grant Genl.”) to Attorney General Henry Stanbery (1803-1881), Washington, 4 January 1867.

GRANT, Ulysses S. (1822-1885). Autograph letter signed (“U.S. Grant Genl.”) to Attorney General Henry Stanbery (1803-1881), Washington, 4 January 1867.

Two pages, 251 x 197mm, bifolium. Housed in a custom clamshell case.

Grant recommends a former comrade-in-arms for an appointment of U.S. Marshal in Alabama. Grant writes to recommend "Col. R. W. Healy, who served with credit in the Union Army during the rebellion" and is now a resident of Alabama for the post of U.S. marshal for that state's Middle District. Grant explains to Stanbery: "...It has not been my habit to recommend any one for Civil appointments; but as Col. Healy has been a Union soldier and comes recommended for an important Civil Office, in a State lately in rebellion, by the bar of that state, and also by officers of the Army doing duty over them, I venture to depart from the rule which I had established and to add my recommendation to the others for his appointment..." Provenance: Philip D. Sang (his sale), Sotheby's, New York, 31 October 1985, lot 75.

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