John C. Robinson Letters to Elisha M. Pease 1845-1882 1845-1848

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John C. Robinson Letters to Elisha M. Pease GA51., 1845-1882, 1845-1848

John C. Robinson Letters to Elisha M. Pease 1845-1882 1845-1848

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John C. Robinson enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1845 and served as commissary and later a regimental and brigade quartermaster in the 5th Infantry. During a distinguished U.S. Army career, he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor during the Civil War, and retired a brigadier general in 1869. Robinson was also elected Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1872 and later served as commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic. This collection is comprised of twenty letters written by John C. Robinson to his brother-in-law, politician and future governor of Texas, Elisha M. Pease (1812-1883) of Brazoria. Sixteen letters were written during the Mexican War between 1845 and 1848 posted from New Orleans Barracks, Camp Corpus Christi, from aboard the steamboat on the Rio Grande, from camp on the Rio Grande opposite Matamoros, Mexico, and Camp Jefferson Davis in East Pascagoula, Mississippi. Four additional letters, 1853 to 1882, include one penned from Fort Phantom Hill in January 1853 and an 1882 letter seeking million+ acre tracts of Texas land for English investors. Rough & Ready

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