CLIPPED SIGNATURE – BVT. MAJ. GEN. EDWARD HATCH, UNION CAVALRY COMMANDER AND FIRST COLONEL OF THE 9TH US CAVALRY, “BUFFALO SOLDIERS”

CLIPPED SIGNATURE – BVT. MAJ. GEN. EDWARD HATCH, UNION CAVALRY COMMANDER AND FIRST COLONEL OF THE 9TH US CAVALRY, “BUFFALO SOLDIERS”

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A large, boldly penned clipped signature of Edward Hatch, reading in full: "Edward Hatch / Bvt Maj General / U.S. Army." The signature is dark and confident, with a characteristic flourished underscore, clipped from a larger document or letter and mounted to a period album leaf. Beneath the clip, an early collector has added a neat manuscript biographical note in ink: "Edward Hatch / Brigadier-general. Born in Maine—; early removed to Iowa. In the war of the rebellion he was a col. in command at New Madrid, Island No. Ten, and Corinth, and afterwards commander of a division in Tenn. He was brig-genl of cavalry in the contests at Franklin and Nashville."

The "Bvt Maj General, U.S. Army" styling places this as a postwar signature—after July 1866, Hatch held the brevet rank of Major General in the Regular Army while serving as Colonel of the newly raised 9th U.S. Cavalry, distinct from the "U.S. Volunteers" designation he would have used during the war.

A native of Bangor, Maine and Norwich Military Academy man, Hatch settled in Muscatine, Iowa, and helped raise the 2nd Iowa Cavalry at the outbreak of the war, rising to colonel by June 1862. He led his regiment at New Madrid, Island No. 10, and the Battle of Corinth, rode in Grierson's celebrated 1863 raid through Mississippi, and was severely wounded at Moscow, Tennessee. Promoted brigadier general in April 1864, he commanded a cavalry division against Hood in the Franklin–Nashville Campaign, earning his brevet to major general. After the war he became the first commander of the 9th U.S. Cavalry, one of the original Buffalo Soldier regiments, which he led on the western frontier until his death at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, in 1889.

Condition: Signature clip with light overall age-toning, mounted to a clean period leaf bearing the descriptive note. Ink remains strong and fully legible. A handsome, display-ready autograph of a significant Union cavalry general with strong Buffalo Soldier association.    [ss][ph:L]

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