Document signed as President of City College of New York. Dated Oct. 31^st, 1887. Document is a list of chemicals bough from Eimer & Amend, NY. Document meas. 8 1/2” x 14”, with folds and a center fold tear. Single sheet with signature on reverse. Document shown in center is a photo copy of the original “front” with logo at top. Blown up photo of Webb above a simulated info plaque below. Frame measures 19 ½” x 32 ½”.

Alexander Stewart Webb was born on February 15, 1835, in New York City. His grandfather had fought at Bunker Hill and served on Washington's staff. Alexander graduated from West Point in 1856, serving in the artillery against the Seminoles, and returned to the Academy as a mathematics professor.

With the outbreak of the war he served in a variety of posts, including Assistant to the Chief of Artillery of the Army of the Potomac and Chief of Staff for the 5th Army Corps. He took command of the 2nd Brigade of Gibbon's Division just before Gettysburg, putting him in command at the "Clump of Trees" during Pickett's Charge, when he was lightly wounded.

He commanded the division while Gibbon was recuperating from his Gettysburg wound, but was back with his brigade again when he was seriously wounded at Spotsylvania in 1864. He returned to duty in January of 1865 as Meade's Chief of Staff, staying in that position until the end of the war.

After the war he served as lieutenant colonel in the infantry and returned for a time to teaching at West Point. In 1870 he left the army to accept the Presidency of the College of the City of New York, a post he held for the next 33 years.

On September 28, 1891 Alexander Webb was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Gettysburg on July 3rd for "Distinguished personal gallantry in leading his men forward at a critical period in the contest."

Webb died in Riverdale, New York in 1911 and is buried at West Point.

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