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THBMajor Sherman Miles, Personal Letters, Photos, Hand-drawn Maps and Original Draft Manuscript of Notes on the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915
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LiveNov 19, 2020
Cowan’s Auctions, a Hindman Company, is pleased to present the November 19 Fall Auction, featuring over 400 lots of historically significant photography, manuscript material, artwork, and other ephemera dating from the 18th through the early 20th century, including the Civil War. Cowan's Auctions dawnie@cowans.com
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Lot includes personal correspondence, draft typed manuscript with handwritten edits, original photos, hand-drawn maps, and more, all relating to the research conducted by Major General Sherman Miles (1882-1966) for his article "Notes on the Dardanelles Campaign of 1915" which was published in multiple installments in the Coast Artillery Journal from December 1924-March 1925. All items are bound in a single volume, 200+pp, with gilt-lettered spine label "Dardanelles Notes / S.M." The son of famed Army General Nelson A. Miles, Sherman Miles was a West Point graduate and career army officer. He is notable for serving as the Chief of the Military Intelligence Division in 1941 when the attack on Pearl Harbor happened. From 1922-25 Sherman Miles was serving as military attache at Constantinople and was asked to prepare a critical study of the Dardanelles Campaign (1915-1916) for the War Department. As part of his research, he made multiple trips to the battlefields of Gallipoli and corresponded extensively with General Sir Ian Hamilton, commander of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Gallipoli Campaign. Approximately a dozen letters exchanged between Miles and Hamilton are contained in the volume, along with Hamilton's handwritten notes and edits on an early draft of Sherman's article. General Hamilton, for his part, was more than willing to provide an honest assessment of the campaign and his role in it. In a letter of April 5, 1924, he writes to Miles: "Herewith I return your interesting article on the Gallipoli Campaign. I think it is an extraordinarily fair-minded document and quite excellent as it stands. All the same, I thought that for the sake of my soldier friends in the U.S.A. I would like to illuminate by some sidelights and you will find them scribbled hastily in the margin with fountain pen. They are meant to be neither contentious nor partisan...."Additional research includes the following: documents from Turkey (some written in Arabic script); the first and final reports of the Dardanelles Commission; War Office maps including "Map of the Gallipoli Peninsula" (1915); "Outline Map of Turkish Empire" (1919); 23 original photographs of the topography and other views in the peninsular area; 9 hand-drawn maps in Arabic showing the location of Turkish troops on various days of the campaign; and a June 1923 article from the Coast Artillery Journal on the Dardanelles prepared by another officer for publication.Some wear, toning, chipping and small tears at edges of pages, but documents overall in good condition. Binding is in generally good condition, but front board heavily worn on right side with curved and heavily rubbed corners.
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