Item #70179 Responding to a request for an autograph with a biographical anecdote, in an autograph letter, signed by Viele on House of Representatives letterhead, January 6, 1886, to George F. Heath. Surveyor of land for New York City’s Central Park, 1856 its chief engineer, Union Brig. Gen. in the Civil War, U S. House of Representatives.

Responding to a request for an autograph with a biographical anecdote, in an autograph letter, signed by Viele on House of Representatives letterhead, January 6, 1886, to George F. Heath

8vo. One-page, approximately 65 words, in part: “[I’m complying with your request] from the seat in the House of Representatives, on then very spot where I slept in the dark hours of 1861 when I came with the first troops to the City of Washington to save the National flag from being hauled down from the National Capitol!” Very good. Item #70179

Price: $125.00