Sold – President Franklin Pierce and Secretary of War Jefferson Davis Appoint a Future Civil War Regimental Commander
Robert E. Patterson, son of the general of the same name who was one of only six U.S. major-generals in the Mexican War, graduated from West Point in the class of 1851, along with such notables as future Union general William Whipple and President Lincoln's Confederate brother-in-law, Ben Hardin Helm. Patterson served...
Robert E. Patterson, son of the general of the same name who was one of only six U.S. major-generals in the Mexican War, graduated from West Point in the class of 1851, along with such notables as future Union general William Whipple and President Lincoln's Confederate brother-in-law, Ben Hardin Helm. Patterson served in the West against the Indians, and in 1856 was involved in quelling the disturbances in Bloody Kansas.
Document signed, with engravings of flags, cannon and other accoutrements of war, Washington, March 25, 1853, appointing Patterson to the position of "Second Lieutenant in the Sixth Regiment of Infantry." The document is countersigned by Pierce's Secretary of War, future Confederate President Jefferson Davis. At upper left, it is also signed as entered by Assistant Adjutant General and future Civil War General Lorenzo Thomas. A very interesting combination of signatures. We obtained this document directly from the Patterson descendants, and it has never before been offered for sale.
In November 1861, now a colonel, Patterson organized the 115th Pennsylvania Infantry. His unit served on the Peninsula in 1862 and was in the Battle of Malvern Hill. After that, in Northern Virginia, they participated in the battles at Bristoe Station, Second Bull Run and Chantilly. In 1867, President Andrew Johnson named him Brevet Brig. Gen. of Volunteers "for meritorious services during the Rebellion".
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