Sold – Engraved Document Signed by Robert E. Lee, James Longstreet,
It is a certificate of membership in the Southern Hospital Association for Disabled Soldiers.
A one page small 4to ornately engraved certificate of membership in the Southern Hospital Association for Disabled Soldiers in New Orleans, founded in July, 1866, made out to Mrs. B.J. Bibb.
The certificate is signed by Confederate generals John Bell Hood (1831-1879), the organization’s president, and on the bottom margin by...
A one page small 4to ornately engraved certificate of membership in the Southern Hospital Association for Disabled Soldiers in New Orleans, founded in July, 1866, made out to Mrs. B.J. Bibb.
The certificate is signed by Confederate generals John Bell Hood (1831-1879), the organization’s president, and on the bottom margin by Robert E. Lee (1807-1870), James Longstreet (1821-1904) and P.G.T. Beauregard (1818-1893).
Beauregard was in command in Charleston when the war was inaugurated in April, 1861, then went on to lead the great Confederate victory at First Bull Run.
Hood did heroic service at Gettysburg, then in 1864 was given overall command of southern forces in the western theater.
Longstreet was Lee’s most reliable corps commander, his “Old War Horse.” Lee has come to symbolize the entire Confederate war effort, and is the south’s enduring icon. Certainly the greatest assemblage of Confederate generals we have seen on one piece, and the first time we recall seeing Lee and Longstreet on the same item.
Sophia (Mrs. Judge Benajah) Bibb was the daughter-in-law of a governor of Alabama and sister of a governor of Georgia, and was extremely active in providing for Confederate veterans. A chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy is named in her honor, and she was responsible for the famous statue of the Confederate soldiers on the capitol grounds in Montgomery, Alabama.
Hood signed this certificate in his official capacity as President of the Hospital, but while Longstreet and Beauregard were residents of New Orleans after the war, and were obviously available to sign at the time, it may have taken some trouble to obtain the signature of Lee. All of the generals were obviously happy to associate their names with a cause that must have seemed to them the best one possible – providing for disabled Confederate soldiers.
An extremely rare and impressive signed Confederate image, this one being just the second of which we are aware.
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