Bidspirit auction | AMERICAN GENERALS AND ADMIRALS OF


AMERICAN GENERALS AND ADMIRALS OF WORLD WAR I - Lot of four signed items, includes: TASKER H. BLISS (1853–1930) Army general and Chief of Staff from September 22, 1917 until May 18, 1918. He was also a diplomat involved in the peace negotiations of World War I, and was one of the co-signatories of the Treaty of Versailles. Bold signature adding his title as American Representative and Plenipotentiary on a 24mo. card, Paris, 1919; LEONARD WOOD (1860-1927) Army Chief of Staff, Military Governor of Cuba, and Governor General of the Philippines. T.L.S. on military letterhead, 1p. 8vo., Governors Island, Apr. 7, 1917: '...the change is difficult now in view of all the work which is coming in on us...'; ROBERT LEE BULLARD (1861–1947), Major general, fought in the Philippines, and World War I, where he commanded the 1st Infantry Division, large signature adding rank; and HUNTER LIGGETT (1857–1935) Army major general who commaned I Corps in the Second Battle of the Marne and in the reduction of the Saint-Mihiel salient. In October 1918, as commander of the First United States Army, he directed the final phases of the Meuse-Argonne offensive and the pursuit of German forces until the armistice. Signature on a small slip adding rank, 1919. Four pieces.