CIVIL WAR GENERAL COLONEL 38th NY INFANTRY LETTER SIGNED to SEC STATE SEWARD '62

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JAMES CLARK STRONG(1826 - 1915)CIVIL WAR BVT BRIGADIER GENERAL,WOUNDED-IN-ACTION LT. COLONEL of the 'Hard-Fighting' 38 th NEW YORK INFANTRY - Second Scott's Life Guard,COLONEL and COMMANDER of the 15 th VETERAN RESERVE CORPS,COMMANDER of CAMP DOUGLAS MILITARY PRISON at CHICAGO, ILLINOIS&Post-War NATIVE AMERICAN INDIANS ADVOCATE - REPRESENTING THE CAYUGA and SENECA NATION of INDIANS!Here's a RARE CIVIL WAR DATE GOOD CONTENT AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by STRONG AS LT. COL. of the 38 th NY TO SECRETARY of STATE WILLIAM H. SEWARD! 2pp., dated at Camp Scott, Virginia, March 11, 1862, recommending his direct superior, Colonel John H. Ward for the office of Brigadier General! Hobart got his Generalship and later resigned, losing his commission!In small part: "... Col. Ward passed through eight severe battles in Mexico, and the one at Bull Run, making nine, more than any of the present Brigadier Generals have ever seen ..."The letter comes with a complete typewritten transcript of this historic letter, and biographies of Generals Strong and Hobart!The document measures 5" x 8" and is in VERY FINE CONDITION.An VERY RARE & Excellent Piece of American Military Memorabilia to add to your ' Generals in Blue ' Civil War Autograph, Manuscript & Ephemera Collection!<< :: >>Biographical Sketch ofGen. James Clark StrongJames Clark Strong (May 26, 182 6-1915) was a breveted American Civil War general and prominent New York attorney in the post-war period. An advocate for Native Americans, he litigated That Portion of the Cayuga Indians Residing in Canada v. State (N.Y. 1885) and Seneca Nation of Indians v. Christy (U.S. 1896) on behalf of the Cayuga and Seneca , respectively, two of the earliest litigations of aboriginal title in New York .Early lifeStrong was born on May 26, 1826 in Phelps, New York . Strong resided in the Washington Territory from 1847 to 1856. Strong married Emily K. Strong, and they had three children: Jean D. Strong, Edward Clark Strong, and Stuart Efner Strong.Civil WarStrong fought on the Union side during the American Civil War , rising to the rank of colonel . Strong was badly wounded, developing a permanent limp. Strong was breveted to the rank of brigadier general .As the commanding officer of the 38th New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Strong ordered the mustering of the unit out of service on June 22, 1863 in East New York, Brooklyn .PoliticsA lifelong Democrat before the war, Strong became a prominent member of the Republican Party after the war. Strong was a supporter of Ulysses Grant , and thus an opponent of Horace Greeley . In a well-published letter, Strong urged his fellow veterans to support Grant's re-election in the United States presidential election, 1872 .Legal careerAfter the war, Strong joined the law firm of his brother John C. Strong in Buffalo, New York . According to Prof. Hauptman, "Strong was a prominent lawyer and civic-minded resident of Buffalo." Strong omits any discussion of his law practice in his autobiography, jumping from his return to Buffalo on June 30, 1866--to "resume the duties of civic life"--to the fall of 1892 when he "went abroad and lectured through England on the North American Indian," on the same page.As Strong concluded in his 1893 book,The Red-men are fast passing away. The beautiful land of their nativity will soon known them no more. It is beyond our power to undo the wrongs inflicted upon them by our ancestors; but we can, and ought to be just--even generous--towards the few who are still with us. Let us hasten to remove from our national escutcheon its one foul blot--the stigma of inhumanity and injustice towards the proud but hapless Indian.Cayuga claimStrong represented the Cayuga people residing in Canada in a claim against New York state for a proportion of treaty annuities, which had not been paid since the 1809. With interest, the Cayuga's claim was valued at $400,000 to $500,000. The s... read more

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