Carl Shurtz Signature / SOLD

Carl Shurtz Signature - Inventory Number:  AUT 130 / SOLD

Strong signature in ink reads “C. Schurz / Maj. Genl.” Autograph is on a slip of paper that meas. approx. 4.50 x 2.50”.

Carl Schurz was born in Liblar, Germany on March 2, 1829. He was educated at Cologne and the University at Bonn. He took part in the failed revolutionary movement of 1848 and had to flee Germany. He worked as a newspaper correspondent in Paris and a teacher in London before coming to the United States in 1852. In 1855 he was admitted to the bar in Wisconsin and practiced law in Milwaukee. He unsuccessfully ran for governor of Wisconsin and in 1861 he was appointed as US Minister to Spain. He resigned in 1862 and was appointed a Brigadier General in the Union Army. He was present at 2nd Bull Run. Promoted to Major General he commanded a division of the 11th Corps at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Chattanooga. He ended the war with Sherman’s Army where he served as Chief of Staff for Slocum’s Army of Georgia.

After the war he served in the US Senate from 1869- 1875. He served as Secretary of the Interior under President Hayes, editor of the New York Evening Post, contributor to Harper’s Weekly and President of the National Civil Service Reform League. He died in New York City on May 14, 1906. He was buried in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Tarrytown, New York.

Inventory Number:  AUT 130 / SOLD