Medal of Honor Recipient to a Medal of Honor Recipient

Item LTR-6997

Description

ALS Letter written by Brevet Major General Orlando B. Willcox (Medal of Honor - 1st Bull Run) to Major John Milton Deane (Medal of Honor - Fort Stedman). Speaks to the death of Deane's horse "Dixie." (One page letter written in period ink).



Madison Barracks
Sacketts Harbor, NY

April 25th 1883

My dear Old Comrade,

I received your paper and was sorry to hear of the death of your beautiful and lythe “Dixie”. The deserved the Eulogy of a warrior for a war horse.

Am well and hope you are flourishing.

Yours Truly,

O. B. Willcox