SEMINOLE YAKIMA CIVIL WAR GENERAL COLONEL AAG FREMONT McKEEVER LETTER SIGNED '64

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Here’s a Civil War Date Letter Signed by General
CHAUNCEY McKEEVER
(1829 – 1901)
CIVIL WAR WEST POINT UNION BRIGADIER GENERAL
USV,
COLONEL
CHIEF OF STAFF TO MAJOR GENERAL SAMUEL P. HEINTZELMAN,
AAG ON THE STAFF OF MAJOR GENERAL & WESTERN EXPLORER, JOHN C. FREMONT
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FOUGHT IN THE YAKIMA WAR in WASHINGTON TERRITORY!
McKeever also served in the Florida Seminole Indian War, Taught Mathematics at West Point Military Academy, Fought Indians in the West, and participated in the Utah Expedition.
In the Civil War’s Pennisular Campaign he was Chief of Staff for the III Corps, fighting at Yorktown, Williamsburg, Oak Grove, Glendale, Malvern Hill, and
2
nd
Bull Run.
He retired in 1893 with the regular Army rank of Colonel!
McKeever is buried in Brooklyn, New York’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery.
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HERE’S A CIVIL WAR DATE LETTER SIGNED BY McKEEVER ON ATTRACTIVE
“WAR DEPARTMENT, PROVOST MARSHAL GENERAL’S OFFICE”
LETTERHEAD,
1p
., DATED AT WASHINGTON, D.C., FEB. 10th
1864
TO JOHN J. RUSK AT No. 4 GREENWICH ST., NEW YORK CITY, REJECTING HIS CLAIM FOR MILITARY COMPENSATION.
This document measures 8” x 10” and is in VERY FINE CONDITION, with mounting traces on the verso.
A RARE & QUALITY Piece of American Militaria to add to your “
Generals in Blue
” Autograph, Manuscript & Ephemera Collection!
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BIOGRAPHY OF GENERAL McKEEVER
Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General. An 1849 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, at the outbreak of the Civil War, he became a Captain on the staff of Major General John C. Fremont. He was later promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and named to the staff of Major General Samuel P. Heintzelman. Towards the end of the war he was assigned as an Assistant to the Provost Marshal General, in charge of Mustering and Disbursing. He was brevetted Brigadier General, US Regular Army on March 13, 1865 for "faithful and meritorious services during the war". He retired from the United States Army in 1893 with the rank of Colonel.
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