JOHN B. FLOYD (1806–1863) — UNDATED AUTOGRAPH/SIGNATURE ON THE CLOSING LEAF OF A LETTER

JOHN B. FLOYD (1806–1863) — UNDATED AUTOGRAPH/SIGNATURE ON THE CLOSING LEAF OF A LETTER

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John Buchanan Floyd was Governor of Virginia (1849–1852), United States Secretary of War under President James Buchanan (1857–1860), and a Confederate brigadier general. He remains one of the more controversial figures of the secession crisis: as Secretary of War he was accused of facilitating the transfer of arms and ordnance to Southern arsenals in the months before the war, and he resigned the office amid that controversy in December 1860. In Confederate service he is best remembered for relinquishing command and escaping the surrender of Fort Donelson in February 1862, after which Jefferson Davis removed him from command. Floyd died in Virginia in August 1863.

Offered here is the terminal (signature) leaf of a letter — an octavo letter-sheet bearing the complimentary close "Very resp'y, Yr. obt. servt." above a bold ink signature, "John B. Floyd," with the integral address in the same hand reading "E. B. Houghton Esq. / Boston / Mass." Undated. A small embossed blind stamp is present at the upper corner, and the sheet shows the usual horizontal mailing folds; the balance of the sheet is blank. The signature and address are in Floyd's hand. Condition Fine.

A clean, displayable example of the signature of a key cabinet officer of the secession crisis and Confederate general.  [ss][ph:L]

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