USA 267 STAMP NEW YORK HOTEL SAVOY ADV COVER & LETTER SCHUYLER HAMILTON 1897 FF

Description: USA 267 STAMP NEW YORK HOTEL SAVOY ADV COVER & LETTER SCHUYLER HAMILTON 1897 FF Click images to enlarge Description USA Scott 267 stamp tied by March 15, 1897 New York machine flag cancel on Hotel Savoy illustrated advertising cover sent with local usage to Samuel Jones Walker. Includes hotel stationery letterhead signed by Schuyler Hamilton. The thank you letter for flowers compliments the florist, Thorily. Hamilton writes, "For never forget, "The poor but honest soldier." According to Wikipedia: (more at site) Schuyler Hamilton (July 22, 1822 – March 18, 1903) was an American soldier, farmer, engineer, and a grandson of Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton was born on July 22, 1822, in New York City. He was the fifth of 14 children born to John Church Hamilton (1792–1882) and Maria Eliza van den Heuvel.[1][2] His paternal grandparents were Alexander Hamilton (1755/7–1804), a Founding Father of the United States, and Elizabeth Schuyler (1757–1854). His maternal grandfather was Baron John Cornelius van den Heuvel, the one-time governor of Dutch Guiana.[3] Through his sister, Elizabeth Hamilton (1831–1884), he was the brother-in-law of Gen. Henry Halleck, and after his death, of Gen. George Washington Cullum. Hamilton attended and graduated from West Point in 1841.[3][4][5] Upon the outbreak of the Civil War, he left his crops and volunteered as a private in the Seventh Regiment, New York National Guard.[8] He worked on the staff of Gen. Benjamin Butler and was rapidly promoted, becoming a lieutenant colonel on the staff of General Scott as military secretary,[11] and renewing his acquaintance with Gen. William T. Sherman[12] He was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers in November 1861 and served as a staff officer in the Department of the Missouri. At the Battle of Island Number Ten, Hamilton led the 2nd Division in the Army of the Mississippi. He was transferred to command the 3rd Division throughout much of the Siege of Corinth. Toward the close of that campaign Hamilton was elevated to command the Right Wing of the Army of the Mississippi, consisting of the 3rd and 4th Divisions. In September 1862, he was selected for promotion to major general but this promotion was never confirmed.[8] In 1863 he was compelled to resign,[13] due to a prolonged illness.[14] President Lincoln, with whom he had maintained a correspondence during the war, regretfully accepted the resignation.[14] After the war, he joined the New York Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States.[3] He returned to his farm in Connecticut for three years and then moved back to New York City. From 1871 until 1873, he was a hydrographic engineer, in the Department of Docks, New York City. From 1873 until 1875, he was superintendent of yards,[15] and subsequently, owing to ill health, lived in retirement.[3] In 1874, his son, Robert Ray Hamilton, on a trip west, had a jacket commissioned by the Cree Metis people, a Native American tribe, for Hamilton.[16] On June 4, 1877, he delivered an address in front of the New York Historical Society, that was later published into a book, Our National Flag, the Stars and Stripes, Its History in a Century.[6] In 1889, he wrote to The New York Times, calling for a return to civility and grace in allowing foreigners to compliment the United States and its leaders who have departed.[17] On April 3, 1850, Hamilton married Cornelia Ray (1829–1867) in New York City. She was the daughter of Robert Ray (1794–1879), a merchant, and Cornelia Prime (1800–1874). Robert Ray Hamilton (1851–1890), a New York State Assemblyman Schuyler Hamilton Jr. (1853–1907), a well known architect, who married Gertrude Van Cortlandt Wells (1849–1944), daughter of Alexander Wells and later the Baroness de Graffenried.[18] Charles Althrop Hamilton (1858–1875), who died aged 17[19] On July 11, 1886, several years after his first wife's death, he married Louisa Francis Paine Allen (1832–1898) at the Park Hotel in Manhattan. On March 18, 1903, he died at his residence, 24 West 59th Street in New York City, after having been invalid for several years.[3] Sent 1897, opened cleanly at backflap, staple holes at top center, vertical crease just left of stamp, some creasing wear & toning. Fair condition. Letter with some splitting at normal file folds, overall fine condition. Base shipping is $2.00 domestic & $3.50 international. Cards selling to USA address for $20.00 to $100.00 will be shipped with USPS Ground Advantage tracking and insurance for $4.50 shipping. 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