Sale 2461 - Autographs, November 7, 2017

LEE SIGNSWEST POINT DIPLOMA FOR CADET 16 c   LEE, ROBERT E. Partly-printed vellum Document Signed, “RELee”, as Super- intendent of the United States Military Academy, graduation diploma for George Bell. Countersigned by 10 instructors, including Robert S. Garnett, George H.Thomas, Dennis Hart Mahan, GeorgeWashington Cullem, and Robert WalterWeir. 25x21 inches; moderate fading to Lee signature (but still legible), few tiny worming holes at folds, faint scattered staining. West Point, 17 June 1853 [3,500/5,000] George Bell (1828-1907) served as a commissary officer throughout the CivilWar, at the end of which he was brevetted brigadier general.