Autograph note signed "T. J. Jackson" to John B. Ross, apologizing for not being able to see him, written at Ross's doorstep just prior to leaving town to capture Harper's Ferry.
Frederick, MD]: 10 September 1862, 5:15 a.m. 5 lines, written on verso of a printed handbill issued by Robert E. Lee on 8 September 1862 (186 x 150 mm). Written in pencil. Condition : separations at folds neatly closed. Framed. stonewall jackson note written during the maryland campaign of 1862, written on verso of robert e. lee’s printed broadside urging the people of maryland to the confederate cause. Jackson’s brief note reads: “Regret not being permitted to see Dr & Mrs Ross: but could not expect to have that pleasure at so unseasonable & [sic] hour.” After entering Frederick, MD on 7 September, Robert E. Lee decided to split his army and sent Longstreet toward Boonsboro and Hagerstown and Jackson to seize Harper’s Ferry. Jackson’s aide, Henry Kyd Douglas, documents the writing of this very note in his memoir, writing that just prior to leaving town toward Harper’s Ferry that they stopped to call on Ross. He writes: “The General was anxious before leaving Frederick, to see the Reverend Dr. Ross, the Presbyterian clergyman and a personal friend, and I took him to his house. The Doctor was not up yet and the General would not allow me to disturb him by ringing the door bell, but he wrote a brief note and left it with a manservant on the pavement to deliver to him” (Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall Jackson, p. 151). The printed handbill upon which Jackson wrote the note is itself a significant rarity and is present here in its first state with the misspelling of Maryland (“Marland”) in the heading. Lee’s broadside letter announced the intention of the Confederate forces to free the people of Maryland from Union rule. When the misspelling was detected, the type was reset and the handbill reprinting. It is assumed that the few copies printed with the mistake were given to officers for use as writing paper. Only one institutional copy of the first issue of the handbill is known (Virginia Historical Society). a rare and important broadside with a well-documented stonewall jackson note on verso. [With:] Two letters of authenticity, each dated 1997, from George Stevenson and Robert Krick.
Autograph note signed "T. J. Jackson" to John B. Ross, apologizing for not being able to see him, written at Ross's doorstep just prior to leaving town to capture Harper's Ferry.
Frederick, MD]: 10 September 1862, 5:15 a.m. 5 lines, written on verso of a printed handbill issued by Robert E. Lee on 8 September 1862 (186 x 150 mm). Written in pencil. Condition : separations at folds neatly closed. Framed. stonewall jackson note written during the maryland campaign of 1862, written on verso of robert e. lee’s printed broadside urging the people of maryland to the confederate cause. Jackson’s brief note reads: “Regret not being permitted to see Dr & Mrs Ross: but could not expect to have that pleasure at so unseasonable & [sic] hour.” After entering Frederick, MD on 7 September, Robert E. Lee decided to split his army and sent Longstreet toward Boonsboro and Hagerstown and Jackson to seize Harper’s Ferry. Jackson’s aide, Henry Kyd Douglas, documents the writing of this very note in his memoir, writing that just prior to leaving town toward Harper’s Ferry that they stopped to call on Ross. He writes: “The General was anxious before leaving Frederick, to see the Reverend Dr. Ross, the Presbyterian clergyman and a personal friend, and I took him to his house. The Doctor was not up yet and the General would not allow me to disturb him by ringing the door bell, but he wrote a brief note and left it with a manservant on the pavement to deliver to him” (Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall Jackson, p. 151). The printed handbill upon which Jackson wrote the note is itself a significant rarity and is present here in its first state with the misspelling of Maryland (“Marland”) in the heading. Lee’s broadside letter announced the intention of the Confederate forces to free the people of Maryland from Union rule. When the misspelling was detected, the type was reset and the handbill reprinting. It is assumed that the few copies printed with the mistake were given to officers for use as writing paper. Only one institutional copy of the first issue of the handbill is known (Virginia Historical Society). a rare and important broadside with a well-documented stonewall jackson note on verso. [With:] Two letters of authenticity, each dated 1997, from George Stevenson and Robert Krick.
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