JOSEPH HOOKER
(1814-1879) Major general in the United States Army during the Civil War, best remembered for his stunning defeat by Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville in 1863. Partly-printed war-date D.S., 14pp. folio, May, 1864, a ledger tabulating the dispersal of clothing and equipment to various officers in the Federal Army's Department of the Cumberland during the stated month. Signed by Hooker at the base of the final page, and countersigned by Lt. Col. WILLIAM G. LEDUC (1823-1917), who would later become Commissioner of Agriculture in the administration of Rutherford B. Hayes. The document is bound at the left edge with a pink ribbon. Folds, with some splitting and paper loss at the creases, and some minor chipping at the edges, else very good.