Civil War cover, #U35 3c pink postal stationery entire, with Sept. 16 dated ST. LOUIS/MO. double circle postmark, addresed to Capt. E. Pittman, C.S. U.S.V. (Commissary of Subsistence, U.S. Volunteers), care General J. P. Osterhaus, at Vicksburg, Miss., and forwarded to New Orleans, LA.
Addressed to Edward Tittman, born in Germany, he was commissioned as a Capt. in the U.S. Volunteers Commissary Dept. on Nov. 26, 1862, Breveted Major, Aug. 10, 1865, and mustered out on Aug. 15, 1865.
Addressed to the care of another German born Officer, General
PETER JOSEPH OSTERHAUS, (1823-1917), born in Germany and a Prussian Army Officer who immigrated to the United States in 1858, and settled in St. Louis, MO; At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was commissioned a Major in the 2nd Missouri Infantry, fought at Wilson's Creek & Pea Ridge; Promoted to Brigadier General on June 9, 1862, and to
Major General on July 23, 1864; Was in Division command during the Vicksburg Campaign, then in the Chattanooga campaign and the Atlanta campaign;
Commanded the XV Corps in the March to the Sea; In March, 1865, was appointed Chief of Staff in the
Military Division of West Mississippi under the command of Gen. Edward Canby, and served in the Battles of Spanish Fort and Fort Blakely; Mustered out of the Army on Jan. 15, 1866; Served as U.S. Consul in Lyons, France, 1866-1877; Later returned to Germany, where he died at age 93.
Small edge tears at top, edge wear. Fine.
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