(1811 - 1868) Hungarian Union brigadier who joined with freedom-fighter Lajos Kossuth in the 1848 revolutionary movement. He participated in the Battle of Pea Ridge, and his right arm was fractured by a musket ball while bringing reinforcements to support Colonel Eugene A. Carr. Asboth later commanded garrisons in Kentucky and Ohio. In August 1863, Asboth was assigned to the District of West Florida, with his headquarters at Fort Pickens. He was badly wounded in the Battle of Marianna. Good content, war-date A.L.S., 2pp. legal folio, New York, July 22, 1861, to a Dr. John Cooper. In full: ‘I am instructed by Maj. Gen. [John C.] Fremont to say to you that he knows of no objection to your appointment to the post of assistant surgeon so desired by you, when, after his arrival at St. Louis he shall find that his department requires an increase of medical officers. For the present he desires you to superintend in this City the construction of the Ambulance waggons and medical chests already ordered for the Western Army – to instruct the contractors for the chests as to the size and number of the bottles to be placed therein, giving them required samples, and for that purpose to procure from the Medical Board in this city such samples as may be necessary – to see that the waggons & chests are constructed of a proper size to contain said bottles, and in accordance with the contracts and specifications herewith delivered to you – to make a requisition upon said Medical Board for the necessary medicines and medical stores for said chests, and after said waggons and chests are properly furnished in the prescribed time and filled, to see that they are sent to a point to be hereafter designated. You will report whenever necessary from time to time whatever is done in relation to the above matters directly to Maj. Gen. Fremont at his headquarters.’ He signs boldly ‘A. Asboth’ in black ink at the conclusion. Shows original mailing folds with small splits thereto at the edges, with a small interior split at center repaired with archival tape, and with some mild toning to the edges, otherwise in very good condition. Sold with a period frontispiece engraving of Asboth, with his facsimile signature beneath the portrait.