LOT OF 436+ LETTERS 1828-1905 JOHN & NATHANIEL MCLEAN SON CIVIL WAR GENERAL FATHER SUPREME COURT JUDGE LOOK! Start Price USD 9.99 Current Price USD 6,637.00 Time Left - Bid Count 33 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Wednesday, September 03, 2008 End Time Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Location Plymouth, Connecticut See more about 'LOT OF 436+ LETTERS 1828-1905 JOHN & NATHANIEL MCLEAN ' Description  ESTATE FRESH! WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET. MOST DATE MID TO EARLY 19TH CENTURY ALL ARE FROM OT TO ONE OF THE MCLEAN'S A FEW DATE CLOSE TO NATHANIEL'S DEATH IN 1905. MOST LOOK TO BE FROM AND TO FATHER MOTHER AND SON. THERE ARE SOME WITH OUT ENVELOPES AND THE LOT CONTAINS OVER 436 LETTERS. THE CIVIL WAR DATED ONES ARE NOT IN THE LOT I DO HAVE A FEW OF THEM THAT I WILL BE LISTING IN OTHER AUCTIONS. BELOW ARE SOME SAMPLE PICTURES. DUE TO THE NATURE OF THE LOT IT IS SOLD AS IS. I DO GUARANTEE THAT THEY ARE REAL! THIS IS A GREAT HISTORICAL LOT FROM TWO VERY IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY. ONE NOTE TO MAKE JOHN MCLEAN WAS THE ONLY DISSENTING VOTE IN THE DREAD SCOTT CASE. JOHN MCLEAN RAN AGAINST ABRAHAM LINCOLN. SINCE I COULD NOT READ THE LETTERS I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ALL CONTAIN. THERE MAY BE SOME VERY GOOD SIGNATURES IN THEM AS WELL AS AMERICAN HISTORY.   THE PROVENANCE IS AS FOLLOWS. THIS WAS FOUND IN A TRUNK THAT CAME OUT OF THE ESTATE OF HELEN H. MCLEAN. SHE WAS A DESCENDANT OF GENERAL Nathaniel Collins McLean (February 2, 1815 – January 4, 1905) AND OF John McLean, (March 11, 1785 – April 4, 1861). THIS WAS ONE OF MANY ITEMS THAT WE ARE LISTING FROM THIS ESTATE. INCLUDED IN THE CHEST ARE OVER 500 LETTERS FROM BOTH NATHANIEL AND JOHN MCLEAN. THERE ARE OVER 500 PICTURES THAT CAME WITH THE LOT ALONG WITH OTHER ITEMS THAT WE WILL BE LISTING THIS WEEK. Nathaniel Collins McLean (February 2, 1815 – January 4, 1905), was a lawyer, farmer, and Union general during the American Civil War. Nathaniel McLean was the son of John McLean, an 1856 and 1860 Republican presidential candidate an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States known as "the politician of the Supreme Court". McLean was well educated, and graduated from Augusta College in Kentucky at the age of sixteen. He then attended Harvard College and received his J.D. He was married in 1838 to the daughter of a Cincinnati judge. While practicing law, he fell ill, and he was advised to travel to Europe and attempt to regain his health. Shortly after his trip, his wife died. He remarried in 1858. At the beginning of the Civil War, McLean organized the 75th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment under authority from Maj. Gen John C. Fremont and became its colonel. The regiment was organized into a brigade commanded by Brig. Gen Robert Milroy and assigned to duty in western Virginia. In January 1862, McLean's troops were engaged at Huttonsville, at the foot of Cheat Mountain. At the Battle of Cross Keys, McLean was promoted to the command of a brigade, consisting of four Ohio regiments. He was then assigned to Maj. Gen. John Pope's Army of Virginia and participated in the Second Bull Run campaign. For service in this campaign, McLean received a promotion to brigadier general. McLean kept command of his brigade when it was reorganized into the Army of the Potomac, and he fought in every major engagement under its succession of commanders, Maj. Gen. George B. McClellan, Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, and Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker. At the Battle of Chancellorsville, the brigade had been organized into the XI Corps and was nearly destroyed during the surprise Confederate flank attack lead by Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson. Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard, commander of the XI Corps, held McLean partially responsible for the disaster and had him shunted off to the Ohio Valley in a staff position. McLean did not hold another field command for a year, although he was in command of the first division of the District of Kentucky under Maj. Gen. Stephen Gano Burbridge, consisting of four brigades. McLean commanded a brigade in the Atlanta Campaign, and again came into conflict with General Howard for alleged failures at the Battle of New Hope Church. McLean was once again relegated to a staff position and later transferred to North Carolina, where he served during Sherman's Carolina Campaign. During the whole war General McLean was off duty for the space of thirty days, having had leave of absence once for twenty, and again for ten days. After the war, McLean relocated to Minnesota, where he retired to the quiet occupation of a farmer.   John McLean (March 11, 1785 – April 4, 1861) was an American jurist and politician who served in the United States Congress, as U.S. Postmaster General, and as a justice on the Ohio and U.S. Supreme Courts, and was a frequent candidate for the Whig and Republican nominations for President. McLean was born in Morris County, New Jersey, the son of Fergus McLean and Sophia Blackford. After living in a succession of frontier towns, Morgantown, Virginia; Nicholasville, Kentucky; and Maysville, Kentucky; in 1797 his family settled in Ridgeville, Warren County, Ohio. His brother William was also a successful Ohio politician. His brother Finis McLean was a United States Representative from Kentucky. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1807. That same year he founded The Western Star, a weekly newspaper at Lebanon, the Warren County seat, where he practiced law. He was elected to the U.S. House for the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1813, until he resigned in 1816 to take a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court which he had been elected to February 17, 1816, replacing William W. Irwin. He resigned his judgeship in 1822 to take President James Monroe's appointment to be Commissioner of the General Land Office, serving until 1823, when Monroe appointed him United States Postmaster General. McLean served in that post from December 9, 1823, to March 7, 1829, under Monroe and John Quincy Adams, presiding over a massive expansion of the Post Office into the new western states and territories and the elevation of the Postmaster Generalship to a cabinet office. While Postmaster General, he supported Andrew Jackson, who offered him the posts of Secretary of War and Secretary of the Navy, but he declined both and was instead appointed to the Supreme Court. Known as "The Politician on the Supreme Court," he associated himself with every party on the political spectrum, moving from a Jackson Democrat, to the Anti-Jackson Democrats, the Anti-masonic Party, the Whigs, the Free Soilers, and finally the Republicans. President John Tyler again offered the post of Secretary of War, but he declined. Because of his fierce anti-slavery positions, he was considered by the new Republican party as a candidate in 1856. Despite his efforts, the nomination went to John C. Frémont. In 1860, he tried again, winning twelve votes on the first ballot at the Republican convention in Chicago; Abraham Lincoln ultimately was nominated. In Dred Scott v. Sandford, his fierce dissenting views are believed to have forced the hand of Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney into a harsher and more polarizing opinion than he originally planned. He also wrote the Court's opinion denying there was a common-law copyright in American law in Wheaton v. Peters. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati. Prior to his death, McLean had been the last surviving member of the Monroe and Adams Cabinets. His son, Nathaniel C. McLean, was a Union general in the American Civil War. His daughter Evelyn McLean married Joseph Pannell Taylor brother of U.S.President Zachary Taylor. During the Civil War, Camp John McLean, a Union Army training camp in Cincinnati, was named in his honor.    POSTAGE IN THE USA WILL RUN A FLAT RATE OF $16.00 PLUS POSTAL INSURANCE.    INTERNATIONAL BUYERS HIGHER RATES APPLY!   FOR INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING PLEASE READ BELOW:   DUE TO PAYPAL TRACKING REQUIREMENTS ANY ITEM THAT SELLS FOR OVER $50.00 USD MAY NEED TO BE SHIPPED USPS EXPRESS INSURED WHICH IS TRACEABLE. DUE TO THIS THE POSTAGE RATE IS MUCH HIGHER. WE DO REQUIRE INSURANCE ON ALL ITEMS SELLING FOR OVER $50.00. IF YOU PAY VIA PAYPAL. IF YOU DO NOT WANT INSURANCE THEN PAYMENT HAS TO BE BY ANOTHER MEANS. 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