ALS WILLIAM PRICE CRAIGHILL TO CHARLES JAMES FAULKNER JEFFERSON CO VIRGINIA 1859

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"The question is this - Is it designed or not by the
6th & 7th sections of the bill now under
consideration in the Military Committee of the
House of Reps for re-organizing the Staff of the Army,
to repeal the Act of Congress of May (?) 3rd, 1853,
which provides that Lieutenants of Engineers,
Topographical Engineers and Ordnance shall
become Captains after fourteen years continuous
service as Lieutenants?"
Autograph letter signed,
Jefferson County, Virginia (now West Virginia): June (?) 22, 1859.
W.P. Craighill to Congressman Charles James Faulkner at Washington, D.C. Quarto (9.75" x 8.25"), 2 pages, approximately 512 words recorded in ink on laid paper.  Signed by Craighill. Retaining the original envelope (soiled & browned) which is addressed to Faulkner but not postmarked.
Condition:
Old folds, one edge tattered briefly affecting a couple of words, couple of tears without loss, old hinging tape along the right side of page two, lightly soiled & foxed, Good or better.
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Charles James Faulkner was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1850, he served until 1859 and was Chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs (1857-1859). In 1860, Faulkner was appointed Minister to France by President James Buchanan. He was recalled in 1861 on suspicions of having "Southern sympathies" and subsequently imprisoned on charges of negotiating while in France sales of arms for the Confederacy. Faulkner, ever the diplomat, negotiated his own release in exchange for the release of Congressman Alfred Ely, who had attended the First Battle of Bull Run, was captured by the Confederates, and ensconced for six months in Richmond's notorious Libby Prison. Thereafter, Faulkner enlisted in the Confederate Army and was assistant adjutant general on the staff of General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson.
“William Price Craighill (1833 – 1909) was born in Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), son of William Nathaniel Craighill & Sarah Elizabeth Brown. He was an author, Union Army engineer in the American Civil War, and later served as Chief of Engineers.
A classmate of Philip Sheridan, John Bell Hood, and James B. McPherson, Craighill ranked second in the United States Military Academy class of 1853 and was commissioned in the United States Army Corps of Engineers. After working on several Atlantic coast forts including Fort Delaware, he taught engineering at the Military Academy from 1859-1862. Civil War. As a Virginian who stood for the Union Army, Craighill was division and department engineer during the American Civil War and worked on the defenses of Pittsburgh, Baltimore, San Francisco, and New York City.”
Courtesy Wikipedia.
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