^#1683 ^Lot 1743 U. S. Grant

War-dated ALS signed “U. S. Grant, Lt. Gen.,” one page, lightly-lined both sides, 7.75 x 9.75, Head Quarters Armies of the United States letterhead, March 7, 1865. From City Point, Virginia, Grant writes to Major General John Pope. In full: “Your dispatch of this date in relation to securing for Col. F. Myers promotion, by brevet, to the rank of Brig. Gen. in the Regular Army is received. I received also your letter of last December on the same subject. My recollection is that I answered your letter stating that recommendations for promotion, by brevet or otherwise, must come from officers under where the recipient of such promotion has served and either go to the Adj: Gen of the Army direct; an[d] if it is desirable to have my recommendation then to me for endorsement. The number of applications I receive to secure promotion for officers makes it necessary for me to address to this rule for all officers except those who have served directly under me. I will be very happy to affix my approval to your recommendation of Col. Myers promotion. It will probably be too late now to secure his confirmation this extra session of the Senate: but his appointment can be made and held over to be acted on when Congress does meet.” In fine condition, with two horizontal folds, and a uniform shade of light toning.

Colonel Frederick Myers was a West Point graduate from Connecticut, who served in the Department of the Rappahannock. Grant approves Myers's promotion toward the end of the siege of Petersburg, when the Confederate army was starving in the trenches, in need of food and transportation. Lee would surrender to Grant's terms on April 9, 1865, and seventeen days later Johnston would surrender his army to Sherman.