FRANCIS FRANK PRESTON BLAIR JR Sherman\'s March to Sea ~ 1877 Art Print Engraving
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FRANCIS FRANK PRESTON BLAIR JR Sherman\'s March to Sea ~ 1877 Art Print Engraving:
$4.91
FRANCIS P. BLAIR, JUNIOR
Artist: Brady _________________ Engraver: J. C. Buttre
IMAGE IS MUCH SHARPER AND CLEARER THAN SCAN SHOWS !!
A HIGH QUALITY STEEL ENGRAVING BOOKPLATE FROM THE 1880\'S!!
PERFECT FOR FRAMING AS AN ART PRINT FOR YOUR DEN !!
VERY ANTIQUE & OLD WORLD LOOKING. ITEM(s) OVER 115 YEARS OLD!!
GENERAL FRANK P. BLAIR, JR., was born in Lexington, Kentucky, February 19, 1821. His father, Francis Preston Blair, a prominent politician, was for several years the editor of the \" Globe,\" a Democratic journal, published in Washington. Montgomery Blair - an elder brother of F. P. Blair, Jr.-is a well-known politician. He was graduated at West Point, in 1835, and served in the Seminole war. He practised law in St. Louis, and in 1839 was appointed United States District Attorney for Missouri; was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and, later, Solicitor of the United States in the Court of Claims. In 1861, President Lincoln appointed him Postmaster-General, which post he held for three years. Frank Blair,Jr.,was educated, at Princeton College, from which he was graduated in 1841, at the age of twenty. While still a very young man, he emigrated to Missouri, and settled in St. Louis, where he studied law, and was admitted to the bar. There he early became prominent in politics, under the leadership of Mr. Benton. In 1845, he made a journey to the Kocky Mountains for his health, and was in New Mexico when the war between the United States and Mexico broke out. he joined the command of Kearny and Doniphan, and served as a private soldier until 1847, when he returned to St. Louis, and resumed the practice of his profession. In 1848, Mr. Blair attached himself to the Free Soil party, and, from this time forward, opposed the extension of slavery into the Territories, both as a public speaker and in the \" Missouri Democrat,\" of which he was the editor for a time. In 1852, and again in 1854, he was elected a member of the Missouri Legislature, from St. Louis County. He was elected a representative to the Thirty-fifth Congress, in 1856, and was a member of the Committee on Private Land Claims. He was re-elected in 1858 and in 1860, and was Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs. In 1857 he delivered an elaborate speech in the House of Representatives, in favor of colonizing the black population of the United States in Central America The suggestion did not find favor at the South, but received the sanction of Lincoln and other prominent politicians. His last term in the House of Representatives was finished in 1862, but he did not wait for its close to begin his military career. As early as February, 1861, Mr. Blair enrolled a regiment in St. Louis, and succeeded in keeping his secret until its services were required in the field. He was the first man to enroll himself as a private in the regiment, but was afterwards elected colonel. On the 7th of August, 1862, he was appointed Brigadier-General, and November 29th of the same year he was appointed Major-General of Volunteers, and immediately afterwards set out for the Army of the West, then under the command of General Grant. About this time Grant\'s forces were divided, and General Biair\'s Brigade was attached to General Sherman\'s corps. He took part in the unsuccessful assault upon Vicksburg, and in the movements against Arkansas Post, which opened the way to Little Rock and the interior of the State. In the subsequent operations against Vicksburg, under Grant, General Blair succeeded Sherman in the command of the Second Grand Division in the Fifteenth Corps, and in October was appointed by Sherman commander of the corps. After the capitulation of Vicksburg General Blair joined in the active pursuit of General J. E. Johnston\'s forces, and in the attack upon and final capture of Jackson, Mississippi. Under General Sherman he took part in the advance of the forces from the Mississippi River toward Chattanooga, and in the battles before that city on the last of November, 1863. As he had, however, been elected during the fall of 1862 to represent the First District of Missouri in Congress, the Government appointed General Logan to relieve him of his command, that he might take his seat. The President soon after nominated him a new Major-General of Volunteers, and he again served under Sherman, and was in the advance guard of the march from Atlanta to the sea. In 1866 General Blair was appointed Collector of Customs in St. Louis, and Commissioner of the Pacific Railroad. For some years he had acted with the Republican party, but, becoming dissatisfied, he returned to the Democratic party, and, in 1868, became the candidate of that party for the office of Vice-President. In 1870, he was chosen United States Senator from Missouri, the term expiring in March, 1873. Political disappointments subsequently superinduced a paralytic stroke. For more than two years he lingered a helpless invalid. His death occurred in St. Louis, Missouri, July 8, 1878.SIZE: Image size in inches is 5\" x 6\", overall page size is 6 1/2 \" x 9 1/2\".
CONDITION: Condition is good. Light age toning. Nothing on reverse.
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THIS IS AN ACTUAL STEEL ENGRAVING FROM THE 1870\'s!
A VERY RARE PORTRAIT !
FRANCIS FRANK PRESTON BLAIR JR Sherman\'s March to Sea ~ 1877 Art Print Engraving:
$4.91