CIVIL WAR PORT HUDSON COLONEL 52nd MA CONGRESSMAN GREENLEAF AUTOGRAPH SIGNED VF!

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Here’s an Uncommon Autograph of Civil War Mass Colonel and Post-War NY Statesman
HALBERT STEVENS GREENLEAF
(1827 – 1906)
CIVIL WAR BATTLE OF PORT HUDSON, LOUISIANA COLONEL
and COMMANDER OF THE
52
nd
MASSACHUSETTS INFANTRY 1862-1863,
UNITED STATES DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONGRESSMAN FROM NEW YORK 1883-1885 and 1891-1893,
-&-
PROMINENT LOCK MANUFACTURER – CO-FOUNDER OF THE WELL-KNOWN FIRM OF
“SARGENT & GREENLEAF,”
and
ORGANIZED THE “
YALE & GREENLEAF LOCK CO
.”
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HERE IS GREENLEAF’S AUTOGRAPH REMOVED FROM A LETTER SIGNED:
“…Friend
S. Greenleaf”
.
The document card measures 3½” x 2¼” and is in VERY FINE CONDITION.
NOTE: ALL THE BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIAL PICTURED IN THE LISTING PHOTOS WILL BE INCLUDED WITH THE AUTOGRAPH.
A RARE ADDITION TO YOUR STATE OF MA MILITAR
Y and NY POLITICAL AUTOGRAPH, MANUSCRIPT & EPHEMERA COLLECTION!
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE HONORABLE H. E. GREENLEAF
Halbert Stevens Greenleaf
(April 12, 1827 – August 25, 1906) was an American
Civil War
veteran and politician who served two non-consecutive term as a
U.S. Representative
from
New York
from 1883 to 1885, and again from 1891 to 1893.
Born in
Guilford, Vermont
, Greenleaf attended the common schools and completed an academic course. He moved to
Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
, and engaged in the manufacture of locks. He was appointed
Justice of the Peace
in 1856. He served as captain of Massachusetts Militia in 1857. Organized the Yale & Greenleaf Lock Co..
Civil War
Enlisted as a private in the
Union Army
in August 1862. Commissioned captain of Company E, Fifty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, September 12, 1862.
Greenleaf was elected colonel of the regiment October 23, 1862.
Post-war
He was employed in a salt works near
New Orleans, Louisiana
, for several years. He settled in
Rochester, New York
, in 1867 and resumed the manufacture of locks.
Congress
Greenleaf was elected as a
Democrat
to the
Forty-eighth
Congress (March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1885). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to the
Forty-ninth
Congress.
Greenleaf was elected to the
52nd United States Congress
(March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1893). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1892.
Later career and death
He resumed his former business activities until retirement in 1896. He died at his summer home in the town of Greece, near
Charlotte, New York
, on August 25, 1906. He and his wife
Jean Brooks Greenleaf
, a noted suffragist, were interred in
Mount Hope Cemetery
,
Rochester, New York
.
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HALBERT S. GREENLEAF – CIVIL WAR SERVICE SUMMARY
Residence
Shelburne
MA; a 35 year-old Manufacturer.
Enlisted on 9/10/1862 as a Captain.
On 10/11/1862 he was commissioned into "E" Co.
MA 52nd Infantry
He was Mustered Out on 8/14/1863 at Camp Miller, Greenfield, MA
Promotions:
Colonel 10/13/1862
Intra Regimental Company Transfers:
11/19/1862 from company E to Field & Staff
Sources:
- Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the Civil War
- Photo Massachusetts Commandery of MOLLUS
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HISTORY OF THE FIFTY-SECOND REGIMENT
MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEER
MILITIA (INFANTRY) NINE MONTHS
The 52d Regt. Mass. Vol. Mil. was raised in Franklin and
Hampshire Counties in response to the call of Aug. 4, 1862,
for nine months troops.
Its rendezvous was Camp Miller,
Greenfield, and here the companies were mustered in on Oct. 2
and 11, 1862.
The field and staff having been mustered Nov.
19 on the following day the regiment left for New York,
proceeding thence to Long Island and going into quarters at
Camp Banks where the Banks expedition to Louisiana was being
organized.
On the 2d of December the regiment embarked on the
steamer
Illinois
bound for Louisiana.
Touching at Ship Island
and New Orleans, it reached Baton Rouge on the 17th where it
was assigned to Kimball's (2d) Brigade, Grover's (4th)
Division, l9th Corps.
The regiment remained at Baton Rouge
until March 13, when with the rest of the corps it
participated in the demonstration against
Port Hudson
in
cooperation with Farragut's fleet in its attempt to pass the
batteries.
This attempt having been partially successful,
the regiment then penetrated to within a few hundred yards of
the enemy's works and held its advanced position for
forty-eight hours, after which it began its return march,
reaching its old camp at Baton Rouge, March 20.
One week later, March 27, it was transferred to
Donaldsonville, and on the 31st started with Grover's Division
up Bayou Lafourche, proceeding to Thibodeau, which place was
reached April 2.
Two days later it entrained at Terre
Bonne for Bayou Boeuf whence, on April 9, it marched to
Brashear City.
Here, two days later, it took steamer for
Indian Bend on the westerly shore of Grand Lake in an effort
to cut off a Confederate force at Fort Bisland.
After the
battle at Indian Ridge, in which the 52d did not participate,
and the escape of the enemy northward, the 52d joined in the
pursuit to New Iberia.
Four companies were left here to do
guard duty, while the remainder proceeded on past Opelousas to
Barre's Landing on Bayou Courtableau.
Here they remained
until the 21st of May, collecting and guarding supplies and
loading and unloading boats at the landing.
On the l9th the
companies left at New Iberia arrived, and on the 21st the
regiment commenced its return march via St. Martinsville to
Brashear City, reaching its destination May 26.
On the 28th the regiment was transported by rail to
Algiers, directly opposite New Orleans, whence it was
transferred by steamer to Springfield Landing just above Baton
Rouge.
This place was reached May 30, and thence the regiment
marched to join its brigade before Port Hudson.
After a short expedition to Clinton, June 5 to 8, to
disperse a force of Confederates there, the regiment returned
to its place on the
Port Hudson front
and participated in the
assault of June 14, losing three men killed and seven wounded,
Captain Bliss mortally.
On the 20th, while guarding a train of wagons near
Jackson's Cross Roads, it was attacked by the enemy. The enemy
was repulsed, but many of the wagons were lost through the
stampeding of the mules.
Returning that night to the front at
Port Hudson, the regiment remained there until the surrender of
that place, July 9.
The term of service of the regiment now having expired,
on July 23 it boarded the steamer CHOUTEAU bound for Cairo,
Ill.
Arriving at this place July 30, on the same afternoon it
entrained for home.
Reaching Greenfield, Mass., Aug. 3, the
men were furloughed until the 14th when they reassembled at
the same place and were mustered out of the service.
Source:
Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors & Marines in the Civil War
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