^#1890 ^Lot 1950 Alfred H. Colquitt

Confederate general (1824–1894). Colquitt also served as a US Senator from Georgia, and was the 49th governor of the state. He commanded a brigade under Hill at Antietam, and at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Petersburg. ALS signed “A. H. Colquitt,” one page, 5 x 8, February 5, 1889. Colquitt writes to Reverend Thomas DeWitt Talmage in Brooklyn, New York, in full: “I have received your new book, ‘The Pathway of Life,’ for which I am much obliged. I shall read it, I know, with the same pleasure I have always enjoyed in following anything you have said or written.” In fine condition, with scattered creasing and show-through from mounting on the reverse.