[ Autographs ] Irvin Mcdowell 1818-1885 Union major general whose mywas routed at Bull Run. and who was later reprimanded for his commandof the III Corps at Cedar Mountain and Second Bull Run. L.S. 4pp. 8vo, Jackson ville, mar. 3, 1875 to Hon. Edward Stoughton. In part: '...we arrived here this morning after a detention at Chickamauga... floods which swept away bridges... It poured down off Lookout Mountain... " he mentions his desire to attend a dinner given by Stoughton, and discusses a pending legal case. One fold, light soiling.