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General Ferry Writes from South Carolina

FERRY, Orriss (1823-1875) was a Republican American lawyer and politician from Connecticut who served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Ferry went to the Hopkins School and then later graduated from Yale in 1844. Ferry's first elected office was as a probate judge, and later served a term as a state senator from 1855-1856. During the Civil War, he volunteered as part of the initial defence of Washington and later was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. Autograph Letter Signed "O.S. Ferry B.G." 1p. octavo, May 12, 1863, Beaufort, South Carolina, addressed to Colonel Davis, and reads " I did not know to whom to address the enclosed paper, and therefore left it in its present shape, that being available any where. I hope you will succeed. I am ordered to the Edisto, and go there with regret..." Fine.

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