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Edward Davis Townsend Letter
Includes an account of the wreck of the mail steamer Winfield Scott and the efforts of its skipper, Captain Blount, to mitigate the disaster. Included also are details of William Walker's "robber expedition" against Lower California and General Hitchcock's subsequent seizure of the brig Arrow.
E.D. Townsend Papers
Copies of official correspondence from Townsend as adjutant general to USMA Superintendent, J.M. Schofield, 1877-1880, signed by USMA Adjutant General William Macky Wherry; printed orders, 1870-1872, issued by Townsend to the superintendents of the U.S. Military Academy through General Edmund Schriver, inspector of the U.S. Military Academy; contemporary copy of "General orders no. 20", 14 January 1864, concerning enlistment bounties.
Letter
Letter signed. Relates to percussion caps.
Assistant Adjutant General E.D. Townsend Papers
July 5, 1865 letter from Assistant Adjutant General E.D. Townsend to Major General W.S. Hancock announcing the Military Commission's sentencing of Lewis Payne to execution by hanging for his involvement in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln and ordering General Hancock to carry out the sentence. 1865 paper containing, amongst other things, a note from A.D. Gillette, Lewis Payne's final consoling minister, announcing his presence at the last moments of Payne's life.
The California Diary of General E. D. Townsend
Townsend served in the Pacific Division and in California from January 1852 to February 1856. He departed from New York in November 1851, sailed to Panama, crossed it, and sailed up the Pacific Coast, arriving in San Francisco in January 1852. He described the events, persons, and scenery (some with drawings) of the new state.
General Orders
A printed copy of an order dissolving the Fourth Military District (Mississippi and Arkansas), a unit that had been created by Congressional order in 1867. General Sherman and E.D. Townsend, Adjutant General, are named in the order.
Saving the Union: My Days with Lincoln and Stanton (Annotated)
No military man met more often with Abraham Lincoln and Edwin Stanton than Major-General Edward Davis Townsend. A West Point graduate and an adjutant in Washington, D.C. during the American Civil War, his anecdotes and stories about events and people are some of the most fascinating observations of anyone who was there. He personally read the dispatch to General Scott relating the fall of Fort Sumter. His remarks on Scott's loyalty and the death of Edwin Stanton are not found elsewhere. His contribution is a wonderful addition to the corpus of Civil War literature. Front-line letters and diaries of the Civil War bring an immediacy to a long-ago event and connect us to these everyday men and women who lived it. For less than you'd spend on gas going to the library, this long out-of-print volume is available as an affordable, well-formatted book for e-readers and smartphones. Be sure to LOOK INSIDE by clicking the cover above or download a sample.
