WAR OF 1812 ALS — CALLENDER IRVINE, COMMISSARY GENERAL OF THE U.S. ARMY, ORDERS A PRESENTATION SABRE & RED SASH FOR COLONEL JAMES GIBSON, KILLED FOUR MONTHS LATER AT FORT ERIE

WAR OF 1812 ALS — CALLENDER IRVINE, COMMISSARY GENERAL OF THE U.S. ARMY, ORDERS A PRESENTATION SABRE & RED SASH FOR COLONEL JAMES GIBSON, KILLED FOUR MONTHS LATER AT FORT ERIE

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Autograph letter signed by Callender Irvine (1775–1841), Commissary General of the United States Army, written from the Commissary General’s Office, Philadelphia, May 5, 1814, to John M. Taylor, Esq., Military Storekeeper. One page, folded letter-sheet with integral address panel, intact red wax seal, and period docketing.

In the letter Irvine directs Taylor to send “to this office this afternoon a Damascus Sabre for Col. James Gibson of the 4th Rifle Regiment,” noting the sabre had been selected and cleaned by Mr. Wickham, that a red sash was to accompany it, and that both would be forwarded the next day by Irvine’s brother, Lieut. Irvine, by stage. Irvine stresses that the sabre “must be sent on this evening.”

The recipient of this presentation arms, Colonel James Gibson of the 4th Rifle Regiment, was killed only about four months later, on September 17, 1814, leading the celebrated sortie from Fort Erie against the British siege works during the Niagara campaign. He was 33. Irvine was the son of William Irvine, Brigadier General of the Continental Army in the Revolution.

A poignant and historically significant association piece linking the U.S. Army’s chief supply officer with one of the fallen heroes of the 1814 Niagara frontier.

Condition: Old folds, scattered toning and light soiling, remnants of mounting and minor edge wear at lower margin; wax seal present. Housed in a protective sleeve. Measures 8 x 10 in.  [ss][ph:L]

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