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Lot of 6 letters to General John C. Tidball (1825-1906), including: General Winfield Scott Hancock (1824-1886), ALS and LS to General Tidball. ALS, 2.5pp, 12mo, dated April 12, 1884, at Governor's Island, NY, regarding the wife of Scott's friend who is staying at Fort Monroe. LS, 1p, 8vo, August 9, 1882, at Governor's Island, NY, originally enclosed with a copy of Scott's "Official Report of Military Appropriations During the Late War," which he had sent on account of Tidball serving as Chief of Artillery during a portion of one of the most important campaigns of the Army of the Potomac and because his name is honorably mentioned in several instances. General Philip Sheridan (1831-1888), ALS to General Tidball, 2pp, 12mo, on Headquarters Army of the United States stationery, accompanied by the original envelope, undated but marked 1886, asking Tidball for use of the steamer General Wool in order to travel to Norfolk and to meet with him regarding the water supply. General George B. McClellan (1826-1885), ALS to General Tidball, 2pp, 12mo, accompanied by the original envelope, dated May 17, 1885, New York, nearly illegible due to McClellan's penmanship but mentioning something about a story in a newspaper. Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926), LS to General Tidball, 2pp, 8vo, on War Department / Washington letterhead, accompanied by the original envelope, dated August 5, 1884, notifying Tidball that his mother-in-law, Ann Eliza Peck Harlan (wife of Senator James Harlan who served as President Lincoln's secretary of the interior) is ill and will be taken to Fort Monroe for a change of air, and possibly on to Cape May, NJ, if the steamer General Wool is available. Mrs. Harlan died one month later at her home in Iowa. And a letter from a member of the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Commission, on letterhead, October 28, 1891, at Chicago, notifying Tidball that his pretty design was selected to be exhibited as honorable mention in an unspecified category. John C. Tidball (1825-1906), from eastern Ohio, received a nomination to West Point and was commissioned a second lieutenant upon graduation in 1848. His early career was eventful, serving in the Seminole Wars, an exploratory expedition in California, and as part of the forces ordered to suppress John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry. During the Civil War he was given a commands in the U.S. Horse Artillery Brigade, New York's volunteer artillery, II Corps during the Overland Campaign, and IX Corps during the Appomattox Campaign, and even served a stint as Commandant of West Point. All in all, he was awarded with five brevets to major general and was personally commended by President Lincoln for his actions with the Horse Artillery Brigade at Gettysburg. Postwar, General Tidball served as Commander of the Department of Alaska, commandant of the artillery school at Fort Monroe, and as a member of Sherman's staff when he was General of the Army, among other assignments. Condition: All in very good condition.