cisco john j (3 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. Original light orange covers, stringbound, approximately 5 ¾ x 9 inches, 16 pp, 8 ¼ x 20 inch black and white fold-out map showing route and progress made in 1867. Softcover, good. Some soil and smudges on covers, two faint rubber stamps (mostly illegible) on front cover, a ¾ and a 1/8 inch tears on side edge there, upper corners of front cover and adjoining leaves creased, front cover creased along length, a 2 inch and 1 inch tears along spine, otherwise tight, clean, relatively crisp and unmarked. Prospectus and promotional booklet. Railway; railroad; trains; Americana.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Poor. 23 x 14.5 cm, 24 pp., full page map of USA showing Union Pacific and Central Pacific stretching all across the continent some water staing inside th front cover.

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. Partially printed Civil War-date letter signed by John J. Cisco, Assistant Treasurer of the United States, under Salmon P. Chase. One page, headlined "Office of the Assistant Treasurer, U.S." and datelined "New York, January 2nd, 1862." Cisco informs his correspondent that a draft for $20,000 was received from Capt. R. Saxton and that amount "has been placed to the credit of your disbursing account." The letter is addressed to Captain Herbert A. Hascall, Assistant Quartermaster at Hilton Head, South Carolina. Hascall served during the Civil War from 1861 to 1863. He was Acting Asst. Adjutant-General of Keyes' Brigade in the Manassas Campaign of July, 1861, being engaged in the Battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861; in command of Battery in the Defenses of Washington, D. C., July-Aug., 1861, and in Guarding the Upper Potomac, Aug.-Sep.1861; on leave of absence, Sep.-Oct., 1861; on Quartermaster duty at New York city, Oct. 4-11, 1861, and at Hilton Head, S. C., Nov. 10, 1861, to Feb. 24, 1862. Signed by Author(s).