CIVIL WAR ANTIETAM GENERAL Hero COLONEL 6th New Hampshire Infantry LETTER SIGNED

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CIVIL WAR ANTIETAM GENERAL Hero COLONEL 6th New Hampshire Infantry LETTER SIGNED:
$154.72

Gen. Simon Goodell Griffin

(1824 – 1902)

Noted Civil War Union Brigadier General

Hero Colonel and Commander of the ‘Hard-Fighting’ 6th New Hampshire Infantry, Leading hisRegiment at the Battles of Antietam, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Vicksburg,Cold Harbor, Petersburg, and Richmond!!

HERE’S a Rare AUTOGRAPHLETTER SIGNED by GRIFFIN To Ira Colby, Jr. at Claremont, NH. The ALS is datelined at Keene, Jan 7, 1873,regarding arrangements for a special train to transport delegates to theConvention at Lebanon…

BOLDLY EXECUTED& SIGNED BY GRIFFIN. The Lettercomes with its original transmittal envelope cover.

Thedocument measures 5” x 8” and is in VERY GOOD Condition.

NOTE:The biography pictured in the listing is includedwith the autograph, as well as a pamphlet about Simon Griffin and the 6thNHV issued by the Civil War Reenacting Unit.

A RARE & Excellent Piece of U.S. Military History to add to your CivilWar Era Autograph, Manuscript & Ephemera Collection!

Biography of General SimonG. Griffin

Simon Goodell Griffin (August 9,1824–January 14, 1902) was a UnionArmy brigadier generalduring the American Civil War,farmer, teacher, lawyer and NewHampshire state legislator.[1]

Pre-War

Simon G. Griffin was born at Nelson, New Hampshireon August 9, 1824. Both of his grandfathers were American Revolutionary Warveterans. Griffin was a farmer and a teacher. He represented his town in theState legislature and was admitted to the barin 1860.[1][2]

Civil War Service

During the American Civil War, Griffin served first as a captain in the2nd New Hampshire Infantry from June 1, 1861 to October 31 of that year. Heserved as lieutenant colonelof the 6th New HampshireInfantry from November 28, 1861 until he became colonelon April 22, 1862. Griffin led his regiment in First Brigade, Second Division, Ninth Army Corps.He led the regiment in the Second Battle of Bull Run,the Battle of Antietamand the Battle of Fredericksburg.Griffin led first brigade second division briefly during the winter of1862-1863.[1][2]

Griffin\'s regiment was sent west with Major General AmbroseBurnside, where Griffin alternately served as regimental andbrigade commander. He served under Major General UlyssesS. Grant during the Siege of Vicksburgwhen Major General John G. Parke took IX Corps toMississippi. IX Corps served for the most time during the Vicksburg campaignwith Major General William T. Sherman,preventing Confederate reinforcements from reaching Vicksburg.[2][3]Next Colonel Griffin participated in Sherman\'s Meridian and Yazoo RiverExpeditions in Mississippi in February 1864, which culminated in the Battle of Meridian.[1][2]

Returning east, Griffin commanded the Second Brigade, Second Division, inthe Battle of the Wilderness,Battle of SpotsylvaniaCourt House and the Battle of Cold Harbor.He was appointed brigadier generalof volunteers on May 30, 1864 to rank from May 12, 1864.[4]

When Major General Robert B. Potter,the division commander, was wounded in an attack on Fort Mahone during the Third Battle of Petersburgon April 2, 1865, Griffin became acting division commander during the Appomattox Campaign.He also commanded the division in the Department of Washingtonafter the Confederate surrender.[1]

Post war

General Griffin was mustered out of the volunteer service on August 24,1865. For gallantry at the Siege of Petersburg,on January 13, 1866, PresidentAndrew Johnson nominated Griffin forthe grade of brevetmajor general of volunteers, to rank from April 2, 1865, and the United States Senateconfirmed the appointment on March 12, 1866.[5]

After the war, Griffin returned to New Hampshire and was a manufacturer atHarrisville, New Hampshire.[1][2]He was elected five times to a seat in the New Hampshire Legislature,serving in the last two terms as Speaker. He spent several years in Texas wherehe speculated in land and railroads. He returned to Keene, New Hampshirewhere he wrote and participated in the MilitaryOrder of the Loyal Legion of the United States.[2]Griffin died in Keene, New Hampshire on January 14, 1902. He was buried inKeene at the Woodland Cemetery.[1][2]

General Griffin also was a local historian, co-author of:

Simon Goodell Griffin, Frank H Whitcomb and Octavius Applegate, Jr., Ahistory of the town of Keene from 1732, when the township was granted byMassachusetts, to 1874, when it became a city, Keene, N.H., Sentinel Print.Co., 1904. Reprint: Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1980. ISBN0-917890-21-3, ISBN978-0-917890-21-5

Simon Goodell Griffin and Ebenezer Tolman, Celebration by the town ofNelson, New Hampshire (originally called \"Monadnick no. 6\" andincorporated as \"Packersfield\") of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversaryof its first settlement,1767-1917, New York: Evening post job Print.Office, Inc., 1917. Reprint: Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Company, 1998.[1]

Notes

1. Eicher, John H., and Eicher,David J., Civil War HighCommands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN0-8047-3641-3. p. 269.

2. Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders.Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964. ISBN0-8071-0822-7. pp. 191–192.

3. A bust of General Griffin now stands near GrantCircle at the Vicksburg NationalMilitary Park. [1]

4. Eicher, 2001, p. 722.

5. Eicher, 2001, p. 712.

References

Eicher, John H., and Eicher, David J., Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.
Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964. ISBN 0-8071-0822-7.

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