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Lot 2156:
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Framed cut signature of Union Army Brigadier General Marsena Rudolph Patrick. His signature is on letterhead for “Head Quarters, Army of the Potomac. Office of the Provost Marshal General. Dated 21 December, 1863.” It is mounted below a small Mort Kunstler print. Patrick was appointed in March 1862 as a Brigadier General in the Union volunteer forces. His brigade was assigned to the Division Of Brigadier General Rufus King, and was sent to the Shenandoah Valley where Gen Patrick’s men fought Confederate forces under the command of Gen Stonewall Jackson. In April 1862 he was appointed Military Governor of Fredericksburg, VA. Later that year he was transferred to the army of the Potomac under the command of Major General George B McClellan and he commanded the second brigade of the third division of I Corps. defending Washington D.C. Patrick’s brigade suffered hundreds of casualties in the Maryland campaign and saw action at the battles of South mountain and Antietam. Following the reorganization of the command structure in the Army Gen Patrick was named the Provost Marshall for the Army of the Potomac in October 1862. Patrick continued in the role of Provost Marshal throughout 1863. New Army commander Major General Joseph Hooker had Patrick create the Bureau of Military Information, a network of intelligence agents. At the Battle of Gettysburg, Patrick oversaw the processing of thousands of Confederate prisoners of war. In early 1864, when Ulysses S. Grant arrived in the Eastern Theater and assumed authority over multiple armies, Patrick was elevated to provost marshal for the combined forces operating against Richmond, Virginia. Frame measures 13”x16”. Autograph clipping measures 2” x 4-1/2”.
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