Military Telegraph from Chattanooga
by (CIVIL WAR - CHATTANOOGA)
Price: $250.00
- Bookseller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc.
- Seller Inventory #: 1389
Book Description
Colonel Mackay was posted with the Army of the Cumberland, a unit operating in Tennessee from 1863 to 1865. Mackay served as Chief Quartermaster of the Army, charged with both garnering supplies for the Army and rebuilding cities ruined by the campaigns of Generals Grant and Sherman. Telegraph. 1pg. 5" x 8 ½". Aug. 25, 1864. Chattanooga Tenn. A telegraph signed "R. Smith" on official "US Military Telegraph" paper. "The following shipments have been made to the front this morning... 22 cans Sab Stores, 1 Car Stationary stores, 1 Can Mail Maths. R. Smith". These transactions were at the time of Sherman's capture and burning of Atlanta, and just prior to Confederate General Hood's Franklin Nashville Campaign to cut Sherman's lines of communication, which was a last attempt by the Confederacy to seize the initiative in the West
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